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Quotes About Wild

I'm a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I'm not a slut or a nympho or someone who's just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it's just that I'm trying to be heard.
~ Libba Bray
She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
~ Libba Bray
He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
~ Libba Bray
she told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches. Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon. The world feared them. They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability.
~ Libba Bray
I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.
~ Luke Temple
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
~ Socrates
Since at the very start of the [ Epic of Gilgamesh ], the purpose of the encounter of the wild man with the civilized king was to restore justice to the city, the poem has, after all, a happy ending.
~ Alberto Manguel
as she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry--unfathomably deep.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Upon the brink of the wild stream / He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Sauvage, sad, silent, as timid as the sylvan doe, in her own family she seemed a strangeling.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Sauvage, sombre, silencieuse Biche des bois toujours amoureuse
~ Alexander Pushkin
Once you went outlaw, then you were there, and that's where you stayed.
~ Alexandra Fuller
He was very tall, with long arms and legs that would be gawky and awkward on anyone else, but were graceful and elegant on his lean, muscular form. He had a wild thatch of wheat blond hair that was forever sticking out in all directions, brown eyes so rich and warm they rivaled even the most decadent melted chocolate, and a ridiculously charming, crooked grin that always made her secretly wonder what trouble he was about to get into... and wish, desperately, that she could join him.
~ Donna Kauffman
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
~ Doug Horton
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.
~ Doug Peacock
Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame.
~ Doug Wilson
I got that Courtney Love for ya, that crazy shit.
~ Drake
But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
~ Paul Eldridge
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
~ Cheryl Strayed
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
~ Jim Carrey
Since I've been spending my time in nature with animals, I found out that we are the wild savages, and they are the ones who are actually civilized.
~ Jim Carrey