Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    “Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “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 you’d find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “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)