Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    “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)

    “I know you’re trying, Don. We’re both trying. You’re trying not to drink and I’m trying not to love you.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “Helen: You’ve got talent and ambition.
    Don: Talent? Ambition? That’s dead long ago. That’s drowned. That’s drifting around with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)