#wild

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. ↗

— Lord Acton

#greek #moves #nature #nothing #origin

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#chill #chill out #come #creative #doing

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#characters #even #fall #getting #i

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ↗

— William Cowper

#enthusiast #half #him #like #possessed

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #gold #i #inside #laughs

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#book #could #course #expect #features

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. ↗

— Laura Dern

#few #few people #heart #i #made