Wilder Quotes

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. - Rose Wilder Lane

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. - Gene Wilder

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. - Louise Bogan

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. - Bible

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon Sr.

With only being on the practice field twice due to the rain, today was an experience for us. The girls did fairly well. I'm happy with the way they played. - Vern Wilder

With his earliest work he stood alone in British theatre up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers too. - Tom Stoppard

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. - Thornton Wilder

Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals. - Mike Matz

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. - Nick Rahall