Top 100 Wilder Quotes
#1. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?
Friedrich Holderlin
#2. Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.
Eudora Welty
#3. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Hence paradoxically, as we accumulate more data and increase our computing power, events become wilder and more unexpected.
Yuval Noah Harari
#5. I want to thank three persons, I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.
Michel Hazanavicius
#6. We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.
Donald G. Firesmith
#7. I'm a (kind of) strong, (semi) independent woman, and I can. Handle. Ty. Wilder.
L.J. Shen
#8. I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman
#9. When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
Andrea Bocelli
#10. When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
Andre Benjamin
#11. Set out, pilgrim. Set out into the freedom and the wandering. Find your people. God is much bigger, wilder, more generous, and more wonderful than you imagined.
Sarah Bessey
#12. His lips crashed against hers. If there had been air in her lungs, she wouldn't have known what to do with it. He kissed her fiercely, making her head spin wilder than a whirlpool, knocking every last puff of breath from her body.
Ophelia London
#13. Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.
John Eldredge
#14. When audiences rejected Ace in the Hole, Wilder said: "F*** them all. It's the best picture I ever made.
Anupama Chopra
#15. Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Lana Wachowski
#16. I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#17. Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
Norman Rockwell
#18. 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
#19. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#21. I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.
Stephen Merchant
#22. On fine nights when the cold and the drumtaps, and the hooting of the owls, and the moonlight, have got into their wild, woodland blood and made it even wilder, they will dance till daybreak.
C.S. Lewis
#23. The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.
Jim Butcher
#24. Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
Steve Martin
#25. You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.
Werner Herzog
#26. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
Andrea Bocelli
#27. Laura Ingalls Wilder said, Home is the nicest place there is.
Kenneth Eade
#28. Wilder's father might have known Darwin when he studied at Cambridge.
April White
#29. Brainstorming had four rules: 1. Don't judge or criticize ideas. 2. Be freewheeling. The wilder the idea, the better. 3. Go for quantity. The more ideas you have, the better. 4. Build on the ideas of fellow group members.
Susan Cain
#30. I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now ... being a bit wilder maybe!
Liam Payne
#31. There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan Hirsch
#32. April 25: Billy Wilder sends a telegram to Marilyn expressing his delight that she will appear in Some Like It Hot. She is to receive her usual $100,000 fee, plus 10 percent of the profits. She is photographed signing a contract with the film's producer, Walter Mirisch.
Carl Rollyson
#33. Sometimes our hearts are wilder than we know.
Claudia Gray
#34. I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
Richard Serra
#35. Well, either you've been out fighting the forces of evil or you've come from a much wilder party than we have," Jace said.
"Hello, there, Blackthorns.
Cassandra Clare
#36. Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow.
Charlotte Bronte
#37. My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.
Lucy Punch
#38. I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.
G.K. Chesterton
#39. Watching Annie walk was better than a bowl of your favorite ice cream on a scorching-hot summer day.
"Are you staring at my ass, Wilder?"
"Yup."
She chuckled. "Okay, but I get my turn on the way back.
Candis Terry
#40. How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.
Sherwood Anderson
#41. I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
Clint Eastwood
#42. In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
Imran Khan
#43. [ ... ] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
Jim Morrison
#44. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.
Jerry Pinkney
#45. She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.
Lesley Blanch
#46. Wilder watched Armstrong head back to video village under the lights of the set, attacking another apple as she went, and thought, Apples and women. Not a good history there.
Jennifer Crusie
#47. The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
Jeffrey Kluger
#49. Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Miuccia Prada
#50. Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
Lawrence Durrell
#51. Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful.
Phillip Tomasso III
#52. Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.
Theodore Roosevelt
#53. So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.
DJ Spooky
#54. There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.
Cornelia Parker
#55. There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.
Kresley Cole
#56. My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.
Aaron Paul
#57. Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say ... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles ... I'm in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee ... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.
John Muir
#58. I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness.
Paul Theroux
#59. He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
#60. Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan
#61. Life with God is wilder than the wildest roller coaster ride, and safer than your childhood bedroom. It's more thrilling than the greatest adventure, and more delicious than an Italian cappuccino--if you can even believe it.
Stephanie May Wilson
#62. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison
#63. As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
Rob Zombie
#64. One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.
James Mangold
#65. Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#66. First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.
Tim Story
#67. As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.
Rebecca Solnit
#68. I don't know what she thinks a Matilda looks like, but I've always thought that I look a little like Gene Wilder, except with longer hair and a vagina.
Melissa DeCarlo
#69. These were wild aromas, far from the schoolroom, church building, or city. Like a secret handshake, these smells meant you were among a higher class. Men who were the best men Wilder knew. The kind of man he wanted, and intended, to be.
S.J. Dahlstrom
#70. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?
Laura Atchison
#71. I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mary Pope Osborne
#72. Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.
Dan Rather
#73. LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.
Lawrence Taylor
#74. I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Elayne Boosler
#75. Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#76. Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.
Naomi Jackson
#77. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Nancy Herkness
#79. He's probably seen that horrible Johnny Depp version of the movie. That you kids like it and not the original Gene Wilder version is sacrilege." "Mom,
Paul Tremblay
#80. She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.
Richard Russo
#81. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
Tracy Chevalier
#82. Wilder, Amos. Theopoetic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
David Willis
#83. As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#84. Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
Tyson Fury
#85. The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.
Jeff Lowe
#86. She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.
Jim Morrison
#87. As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.
Nicholson Baker
#88. I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
Sarah Chalke
#90. What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
Sylvia Plath
#91. I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
Dom DeLuise
#92. I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin
#93. Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
Francesca Lia Block
#94. To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he found himself rushing to keep ahead of his growing mortification, which only made it sound wilder and more foolish the faster he went. "You
Laini Taylor
#95. Did the tea-time of your soul
Make you long for wilder days
Did you never let Jack Kerouac
Wash over you in waves?
Richard Thompson
#96. I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will ... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.
Rosamund Pike
#97. Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...
Eleanor Brown
#98. Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create.
Marty Rubin
#99. The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
Shaffi Mather
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