Quotes of: Wilde Keyword

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

The Fiery Heart

I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. "Give me your ring. Now.

Fire

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Jane Eyre

But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

Sisterhood of Dune

I was first drawn to you thinking you were going to teach me something more than that. I needed that which I sensed in you and which you have always denied.

Near to the Wild Heart

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

The Next Million Years

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested.

The Lightning Thief

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

Macbeth

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery

Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

So, you invite a wild rabbit living in Italy to a party on the island of Crete. What’s it supposed to do, swim there? Its little tux would get wet.

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

But Vivien wasn't being given the chance to sow her wild oats. Speaking from a point of authority, it's best to get that shit out of the way when you are young.

Trail of the Spellmans

home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

The Wild Boys

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

Where the Wild Rose Blooms

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

Wolf Hall