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Quotes About Wild

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.
~ Sigmund Freud
Music has charms to soothe a savage breaste is what the playwright William Congreve actually wrote. But it's part of our mythology: a wild or angry animal calmed or tamed by music. Which makes sense, given all we know about how music can affect the spirits of a human being.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.
~ Simon Doonan
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
~ Simon Doonan
It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild and menacing.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Like father like daughter, passionate, wild . . . she hasn't learned to bend before adversity.
~ Sophocles
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
~ Henry Rollins
If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...
~ Tennessee Williams
My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other, vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.
~ Tara Estacaan
If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild
~ Cristian L. Martinez
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
~ John Milton
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
~ John Muir
How erotic Texas must be!" she said. I was sure she had meant "exotic," but I followed through: "Maybe, if you find cactus and deserts erotic, sensual.
~ John Rechy
Weatherborne folk-memories whistle down chimneys, fell fences, tear tiles from roofs, and bang at back doors. The wild is out there, just outside. We know, just as all of our ancestors knew, the power and the might of nature beyond the confines of our man-made world.
~ John Reppion
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
~ Ellen Meloy
Keith had basically died from an incurable case of being Keith Moon.
~ Elton John
Perhaps it is necessary to have been, like Nebuchadnezzar, something of a wild beast, and shut up in a cage at the Jardin des Plantes without other prey than the butcher's meat doled out by the keeper, or a retired merchant deprived of the joys of tormenting his clerks, to understand the impatience with which the brother and sister awaited the arrival of their cousin Lorrain.
~ balzac honore de iv
At last they reached Wild River. "This is it?" Bill gawked in dismay. Jordanna joined the men to stare at the dark bed of mossy rocks. "It is wild, isn't it?" she quipped, surprising herself with her own good humor when her shoulders, her back, her legs ached.
~ Barbara Delinsky
in his wild grief Achilles cried aloud, and his mother Thetis heard him...Immediately she rose up through the water...after her came her sisters...and each one's wailing was the thin sound of the wind upon the waves.
~ Barbara Leonie Picard