Howard Rollins, who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance, said, " I was frightened to meet Mr. Cagney.

" This reality was noted by playwright Oscar Wilde, who said: " One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Perdues protagonist Lucien de Rubempré ….

And after winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, " There must be some terrible mistake, I used up all my English!

In early 2008, Oscar Pistorius, the " Blade Runner " of South Africa, was briefly ruled ineligible to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics because his prosthetic limbs were said to give him an unfair advantage over runners who had ankles.

On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, " I wish I'd said that ", to which Whistler riposted, " You will, Oscar, you will!

" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.

So too Gregory was quoted as repeating that his source said that the Oscar was tossed in the Potomac River by angry protesters.

Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, " As a piece of simple decorative and beautiful art it is perfect, and the windows very artistic.

In the same interview, Abraham said: Even though I won the Oscar, I can still take the subway in New York, and nobody recognizes me.

* In 2006, in response to a candidate ( Ottón Solís ) who challenged him to a debate, Oscar Arias said: “ Eagles live on high and see from on high, and don ’ t bother to watch what the snails are doing ”, referring himself as an eagle and other the candidates as “ snails ”.

Wilson realized that by scheduling the Golden Raspberry Awards prior to the Academy Awards, the ceremony would get more press coverage: " We finally figured out you couldn't compete with the Oscars on Oscar night, but if you went the night before, when the press from all over the world are here and they are looking for something to do, it could well catch on ," he said to BBC News.

Oscar Wilde is said to have visited South Hill Park but this has never been verified.

" The New York Herald Tribune said that Oscar Hammerstein II " must be considered one of the greatest librettists of our day " and that Carmen Jones was " a masterly tour de force ".

Oscar Traynor, then Minister for Defence, said that the contracts with the Magdalene laundries “ contain a fair wages clause ,” though the women in those laundries did not receive wages.

Oscar Cohen of the Canadian Jewish Congress is reported to have said she " almost broke up the inaugural meeting of the congress on refugees by her insistent opposition and very apparent anti-Semitism.

In February 2009, Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke, who starred with Roberts in The Pope of Greenwich Village, said he hoped that Roberts would soon be offered a role which would resurrect his career in the way that The Wrestler rejuvenated Rourke's.

Asked if he minded not even being nominated for the Best Director Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy, Beresford said: " No, not at all.

Oscar Wilde, upon visiting the club in 1882, is reported to have said " I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

" There are three rules for writing plays ," said Oscar Wilde.

It appeared in Animal House ( Mayor Carmine DePasto owns an Oldsmobile dealership and allows his vehicles to be used during the parade ), Trading Places ( Duke & Duke limousine ), Thriller ( Jackson's car ), Twilight Zone: The Movie ( during Prologue ), Into the Night ( Diana's brother's car ), The Blues Brothers ( while driving through the mall, Elwood said: " The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year "), The Three Amigos ( during scenes in Santo Poco ), and Oscar.

Oscar Wilde said it looked like " a castellated monstrosity with pepper boxes stuck all over it ," although he did admire the arrangement and movement of the pumping machinery inside.

Hammerstein said it was the worst thing he had ever seen.

She also said that Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her suggestions and she worked extremely well with them.

" William Hawkins of the New York World-Telegram said that Merman was " bright as a whip, sure as her shooting, and generously the foremost lady clown of her time " and asserted that the show itself was comparable to those of Rodgers and Hammerstein, proclaiming, " For verve and buoyancy, unslackening, there has seldom if ever been a show like it ... the girls in Annie have the beauty and character of looks one associates with a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.

When Hammerstein and Schleicher met later on the evening of January 29 to discuss what Hitler had said, they dispatched Werner von Alvensleben to meet Hitler, who was having dinner at the apartment of Joseph Goebbels, to seek further assurances that Schleicher could serve in a Hitler government.

Comparing the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein to that of Lloyd Webber, Paige has said that she finds Rodgers and Hammerstein songs more difficult to sing, and described them as challenging.

In an interview with Time Magazine, Hammerstein said that " It took me seven months to write the book and lyrics for Cinderella ".

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

`` You're Gavin's son '', Joe Purvis had said.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.

Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Mary Jane had smilingly said.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.

`` Hi there, Schaffner '', he had said.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

Aloud he had said, making conversation:

`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.

`` Thank you '', the German had said courteously.

His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.