#wilde

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#anything #as far as #big #big fan #billy

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. ↗

— Clifton Cameron

#life

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#fear #peter-the-wolf #safety #survival #survive

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #wilderness #imagination

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right. ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

#oscar-wilde #respect

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#environmentalism #wilderness #environmentalism

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. ↗

— Jim Kjelgaard

#dogs #wilderness #men

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

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

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#vision #wilderness #love