Thornton Wilder Quotes

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkWisdomGreatMomentDaySeeing

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.

Meek Mill

GirlDaySocial MediaThinkMedia

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

Steven Rattner

UniverseAmericanInequalityGrowing

You feel that your character is special. It's not your normal nine-to-five. You're not someone who goes home and lives a normal life.

Michael Socha

LifeHomeCharacterSomeoneYou

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

Molly Bloom

LifeMy LifeCreditGamesPlayers

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

Dick Thornburgh

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Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Dee Dee Myers

WomenProcessInformationResolve

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Anthony Edwards

FeelBackTelevisionWhateverComing

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Peter Singer

LibraryLongEverythingBeenEver

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

Timothy F. Cahill

WorkAttitudeStyleBetterHelpWay

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Tim Berners-Lee

HopeValueInternetYouFindGo

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

James MacArthur

GoodMeLuckGood LuckRoadBelieve

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

Henry Hudson

GoodFirePeopleGood PeopleAfraid

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