Thornton Wilder Quotes

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappinessGodBestGiftAliveKnow

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci

MusicArchitectureCreativeTheatre

My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn't have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.

Stan Wawrinka

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The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

Steven Weber

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God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

Tony Kushner

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The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.

Robbie Robertson

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I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek!

Michael Kiwanuka

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You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

Jonathan Mostow

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For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey

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Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

Clea Duvall

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We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

Colin Greenwood

StepKindThingsCenterReally

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

Cindy Sheehan

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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Penelope Lively

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