Our Town By Thornton Wilder Quotes

#1. My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

George Burns

#2. Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?

Sherman Alexie

#3. Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

Bert Sugar

#4. You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.

Thornton Wilder

#5. Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

Elisabeth Leseur

#6. The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.

Richard Kluger

#7. Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

Thornton Wilder

#8. You can't lead if no one will follow.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

Katie J. Davis

#10. The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.

Cat Cora

#11. all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they

Thornton Wilder

#12. So - people a thousand years from now ... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Thornton Wilder

#13. Awards don't really mean much.

Uta Hagen