Top 1200 Wild World Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I know my family's adventures must scare a lot of you who have rarely or never been into the wild or are afraid of heights and exposure.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty moshpits.

Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. “Let’s walk in the garden,” she said softly. “We can’t.” “We must.” “We can’t.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

I generally enjoy talking with the audience - they give you so much. They've usually had a cocktail or two and they are wild, so it creates a fun environment.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

To be alive at all is so crazy, to experience the wide spectrum of feelings and emotions is so wild, but we have nothing else to compare it to, so it becomes normal.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

I'm so excited 'Doctor Who''s coming back. It's a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.