Thornton Wilder Quotes

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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H&M makes it easy for a guy to look great every single day and create a personal style. Their men's collection always gives me a choice of how I want to dress, whether it be sharp in a suit and polo-neck, or more relaxed in jeans and a tweed jacket.

Joel Kinnaman

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Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.

Jenna Wortham

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I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Melanie Chisholm

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I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Steven Wright

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Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Robert D. Hare

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That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Rod Steiger

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In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

Michael McCaul

WorldYouSeeingMoreGoingRadical

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

Don Rickles

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I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

Brendan Gleeson

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In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

Bob Diamond

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

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Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success.

Withered Hand

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