The Picture Of Doran Gray Quotes & Sayings

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that. — Learned Hand

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world — Oscar Wilde

I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it. — James Marsden

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. — Oscar Wilde

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. — Terence McKenna

There was a formula - a sort of list of things to say and do - which I recognised as something black and forbidden; something which I had read of before in furtive paragraphs of mixed abhorrence and fascination penned by those strange ancient delvers into the universe's guarded secrets whose decaying texts I loved to absorb. — H.P. Lovecraft

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. — Norman B. Rice

Nearer, my God, to Thee. — Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. — Murray Rothbard

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality. — Margaret Mitchell