Quotes of: Wilde Keyword

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

William Shakespeare

In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to make a world that people can believe in even if it's a little wild or out there.

Karen Russell

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be left alone, so it’s not surprising tha...

Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom

I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst int...

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats wer...

A Wild Sheep Chase

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects mus...

A Wild Sheep Chase

A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, ...

The Wild Girls

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much ...

The Wild Things

It occurred to me that perhaps the wilderness makes me feel so alive and attuned to Spirit because it is an outward projection of the inner essence alive within the center of my being – my wild essence. The wild Earth is a reflection of the abundan...

Wild Essence: Return to the Peace & Freedom of Your Inner Wilderness

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into region...

The Scarlet Letter

The flowers in your garden don't smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.

Chinese

When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.

Malagasy

Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other’s clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz.

The Demigod Files

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

A Difficult Damsel to Rescue

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

There was something familiar but strange about her - Snow White with a suntan. Cinderella in biker boots. Tough and delicate and magical and real all at once.

Fairytales for Wilde Girls

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

Getting the Girl

Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.

The Battle of Evernight

Look!" She pointed, a smile on her face. "Wild pigs!" "They have razor-sharp tusks, so don't try to hug one.

Breaking Point

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Auguries of Innocence

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

The Reptile Room