#wilde

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. ↗

— Richard Serra

#billy wilder #came #eat #first #here

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#central #designation #i #i believe #idaho

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#away #create #i #realize #walk

There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#believe #daily #events #extraordinary #fits

You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms. ↗

— Alice Valdal

#pioneers #wilderness #dreams

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

[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

Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?" "No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #marriage