Top 1200 Wild Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Listening to country music as a kid allowed my imagination to run wild.

Well, no wild animal is really going to appreciate a hug, to be honest.

So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.

The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal.

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

It would take wild horses to get me to talk.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

I have a wild streak, but I like to keep that very much for my friends.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.

There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

Being in unfamiliar places has no effect on my writing, except that it often means I'm caught up in the logistics of travel, the places and people on the spot, etc., etc., which can mean that I don't have the time to write. But I try, wherever I am, to take a couple of hours in the early evening to go off and write. Because I never write from personal experience, per se, where I am makes no difference except for this element of available time.

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'

Hey, I don't drink or go wild anymore, but I can still be the life of the party.

My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.