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Thornton Wilder Quotes

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great People World Rest Fools Us

When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

John John Florence

Start Hurt You Things Forcing Get

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.

Good Great Fun Doing You Bad

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Science Ideas Fantasy Science Fiction

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Mother Unhappy She Always Something

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Son Garden Vegetables Growing How

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

Good Father Mother Poverty Crime

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Heart I Am More Than Cinematographer

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

William Shockley

Truth History Creation Electronics

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men.

Family Money Men War Tomorrow Mind

I think what 'Shameless' does well is highlight real relationships. And in any real relationship, there are ups and downs and elements that change the dynamics of the relationship.

Shanola Hampton

Change Relationship Think Real Well

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Mistake Way See Expansion I See

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Time Loved Same Always Film He

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