Famous quotes containing the word wilder:
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. Youve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethovens Pastoral. A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses youd find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)
“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. Its your combination sinnersyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardswho dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)