Quotes of: Wilde Keyword

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Aleister Crowley

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

William Cowper

Jack Crabb: Uh, Mr. Hickock, how many men have you... gunned down? Wild Bill Hickock: I don't rightly remember. You? Jack Crabb: Oh, about two dozen. Wild Bill Hickock: Is that a fact? Jack Crabb: [voiceover] No, it wasn't a fact. In my gunfighter pe...

Little Big Man

Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.

Die Hochstaplerin

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.

East

Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.

The Hypothetical Girl

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Laurie Anderson

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

August: Osage County

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

Inside the Divine Pattern

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

Interview with the Vampire

... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

The Real Real

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

A Long Fatal Love Chase

Megan’s deception is another hook on which I can hang my conscience.

Leap the Wild Water

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

The Sunflower

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

A Sport and a Pastime

You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!

Wild Adapter, Volume 5

She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

The Wild Road

If I were a Wild West cowboy, I wouldn’t ride a horse—I’d ride a wheelchair. More romantic.

Xazaqazax

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

Paul Di Filippo