Quotes - David Vulpe (Chisinau, 57, Moldova) Showing 1-30 of 97

#1

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

#2

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

2184 likes

#3

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

2519 likes

#4

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

1781 likes

#5

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2263 likes

#6

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

1812 likes

#7

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

2145 likes

#8

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2402 likes

#9

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

1766 likes

#10

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

3259 likes

#11

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3938 likes

#12

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

2658 likes

#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

178227 likes

#14

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

82051 likes

#15

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71819 likes

#16

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

85265 likes

#17

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46650 likes

#18

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25550 likes

#19

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21570 likes

#20

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17432 likes

#21

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20272 likes

#22

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14768 likes

#23

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14716 likes

#24

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

9968 likes

#25

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

10332 likes

#26

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

9104 likes