Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life. And that, too ... [ellipsis in source]
    —Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

    The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    It’s like the doctor was just telling me, “Delirium is a disease of the night.” Good night.
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)