Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    I hate that word. It’s return—a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.
    —Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965)

    [France is] a country where the money falls apart but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)