Wild Quotes
2102 quotes by 1446 authors
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right…
— Chinua Achebe
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature…
— David Attenborough
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with…
— Margaret Atwood
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
— Diane Ackerman
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild…
— Lester Bangs
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
— Francis Bacon
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as…
— Christine Baranski
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
— Edward Abbey
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I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.
— Todd Barry
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
— Brendan Behan
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
— Buffalo Bill
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity…
— William Blake
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It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the…
— Tom Bodett
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who…
— Casey Affleck
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the…
— Daniel Boone
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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a…
— Jo Brand
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