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Thornton Wilder Quotes

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975

Topics

Art Theatre Way Human Human Being

What you haven't seen from me are false attacks.

Joe Garcia

Me You False Seen Attacks

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Robert Menzies

Think Speech Never Forget Forget

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

Jeffrey Kluger

Job People Internet Powerful Envy

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

Stephen J. Cannell

Good People Trying Say Some People

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Romesh Gunesekera

Perspective Building Library London

Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish.

Roz Chast

You Need Even Dishes Dish Any

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Mitch Hedberg

Work Kitchen Kid Sure Make Draw

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

Lukas Forchhammer

Restaurant Expensive Pretty Bought

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Lou Jiwei

Risk Tech Lot Sector

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Donna Brazile

Me Think Acting I Can Way Critic

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Bruce Cockburn

Trouble Always Normal Worse Gets

Every launch of a new international edition of HuffPost is an opportunity to revisit our core DNA and remind ourselves who we are as an organization.

Arianna Huffington

Opportunity Organization New DNA Who