#wilde

Vortexy. "Is that even a word?" I ask myself "You're talking to yourself, so who the hell cares?" I reply ↗

— Gayle Forman

#humor #humor

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#dinner #everyone #gene #i #imitated

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#depths #explore #glories #go #into

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life. ↗

— Phil Hartman

#beyond #dreams #financially #fun #i

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#oscar-wilde #riposte #humor

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#certainly #compound #everywhere #fallen #fiend

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#cheque #different #different attitude #facing #government