Wilder Quotes

• Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

  Miuccia Prada

  Style, Trying, Looks

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Crime

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• The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

  Steven Erikson

  War, Civilization, Effort

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• [...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

  Jim Morrison

  Risk, Fusion, Losing

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• I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

  Dom DeLuise

  Dinner, Genes

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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

  Horse, Thank God, Excitement

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

  Mel Brooks

  One Day, Rabbits, Lambs

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• Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

  Dan Rather

  Party, Light, Turns

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• You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

  Werner Herzog

  Fighting, Rumours

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• In Bulgarian I am much more flowery, the sentences are wilder. In English out of necessity I try to be clear and disciplined. I realized by writing in English there is so much more to writing a good story than the style.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Writing, Style, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Summer, Clouds, Wind

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Hurrahing In Harvest”

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• You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of gain that doesn't requite pain. You'll be so alive and awake that you'll cheerfully push yourself out of your comfort zone in the direction of your personal frontier well before you're forced to do so by divine kicks in the ass.

  Rob Brezsny

  Pain, Blessing, Interesting

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• 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

  Horse, Men, Action

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Get Away

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• 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

  Country, Moving, People

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Girl, Sweet, Kids

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• 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

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

  Rob Zombie

  Directors, Fans, Doe

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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• Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm.

  Ralph Cavanagh

  Unique, Creating, Vision

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• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Data, Intellectual

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• There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.

  Kresley Cole

  Kissing, Cajuns, French Kiss

  Kresley Cole (2013). “Endless Knight”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Stories, Western

  "An interview with Lawrence Kasdan". www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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