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Thornton Wilder Quotes

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood I Am Unhappy Extraordinary

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

Jennifer Johnston

Good People Think Laugh My Own Own

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Life Stress Negative You Look Own

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

Religion Grow Political Become Dogma

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jules Verne

Time Tide Stop Like Trains

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

Cherie Blair

Good Women Girl People Control Feel

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Anthony Anderson

School Talent High School Scholarship

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.

Allen Iverson

Know Number Pick Knew Gonna

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.

Muhammad Ali

Live Man White Wrong Want Follow

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Red Speak Think Feel Liberty New

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

Lillian Gish

Believe Understand I Believe More

'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Snow Road American First Everything

I took some meetings when I was 11. I think what was interesting about being a young kid in environments like that was people were like, 'You're so sure of yourself! You're so confident!' And I was like, 'I'm 12.' Now I've got to this place where I'm like, 'This is who I am.'

King Princess

Yourself I Am People Think Confident