Ryan Cunningham > Ryan's Quotes

“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

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray