Quotes about Wilder

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful. Votes: 6

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. Votes: 6

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. Votes: 6

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more. Votes: 4

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. Votes: 4

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. Votes: 4

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder. Votes: 4

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. Votes: 4

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise. Votes: 4

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. Votes: 4

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier. Votes: 4

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus. Votes: 4

Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer. Votes: 4

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. Votes: 4

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again. Votes: 4

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. Votes: 4

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town. Votes: 4

Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude. Votes: 4

After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland. Votes: 4

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus. Votes: 4

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. Votes: 4

If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too. Votes: 3

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western. Votes: 3

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. Votes: 3

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone Votes: 3

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. Votes: 3

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. Votes: 3

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top Votes: 3

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. Votes: 3

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. Votes: 3

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife Votes: 3

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him. Votes: 3

I want to thank three persons, I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder. Votes: 3

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Votes: 3

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989. Votes: 3

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things. Votes: 3

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. Votes: 3

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s. Votes: 3

Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory." Votes: 3

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. Votes: 3

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of. Votes: 3

Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm. Votes: 3

It's the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.It's what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I'm seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine. Just Ava.And I am utterly in love. Votes: 3

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded. Votes: 3

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real. Votes: 3

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957) Votes: 3

In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..." Votes: 3

On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers." Votes: 3

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder. Votes: 0

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour. Votes: 0

There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder. Votes: 0

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world. Votes: 0

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder. Votes: 0

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow. Votes: 0

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. Votes: 0

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. Votes: 0

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins. Votes: 0

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha. Votes: 0

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister. Votes: 0

I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side. Votes: 0

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. Votes: 0

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed. Votes: 0

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with. Votes: 0

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? Votes: 0

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Votes: 0

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime. Votes: 0

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream. Votes: 0

When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! Votes: 0

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure. Votes: 0

I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe! Votes: 0

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? Votes: 0