Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

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

    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)

    And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man? The crop of English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)