Wild Quotes
2102 quotes by 1380 authors
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The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses…
— Wendell Berry
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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.
— Paul Shepard
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy…
— Charles Dickens
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What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this…
— Liv Tyler
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If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
— Ben Weaver
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I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are…
— John Calvin
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by…
— Marie Corelli
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She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
— Jack Prelutsky
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Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
— Russell Brand
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Wild women don't get the blues.
— Unknown Author
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
— Jack Steinberger
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The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild…
— Timothy Egan
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
— Peter Matthiessen
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
— William Kennedy
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The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
— Emanuel Ax
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That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too…
— Li-Young Lee
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific…
— Lee De Forest
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