Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Oscar Wilde

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Oscar Wilde

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Maeve Binchy

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Mae West

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

Madonna Ciccone

When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

Madonna Ciccone

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

Madonna Ciccone

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

Madonna Ciccone

The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

Madonna Ciccone

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Madonna Ciccone

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Madonna Ciccone

My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.

M. Ward

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

Lyman Abbott

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

L'Wren Scott

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

Lydia M. Child

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Lydia M. Child

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

Luke Scott

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

Luke Perry

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

Luke Wilson

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

Luke Wilson

I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot.

Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucinda Williams

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Lucinda Williams

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

Lucretius

For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals. [Lat., Ignoratur enim, quae sit natura animai; Nata sit, an contra nascentibus insinuetur; Et simul intereat nobiscum, morte diremta, An tenebras Orci visat, vastasque lacunas: An pecudes alias divinitus insinuet se.]

Lucretius

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Louis Kronenberger

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Louis L'Amour

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.