Thornton Wilder Quotes

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FaithHopeCourageNothingLike

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BeautyAloneWalkSoulSometimes

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.

John Cho

AmericanTraditionHorrorSeenEven

I consider myself a realist.

John McCain

MyselfRealistConsider

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

Michael Douglas

ProblemWallProfitInnocentPlay

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Roger Deakins

SimplicityLookSittingRoomLamp

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

LawMoralDifferenceConscienceHold

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

PeaceWarWellLaws

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks

EducationArmyYouCountryNeed

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Dennis Brown

WaterSingingYouSometimesWhy

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Debra Winger

WalkReadyGoWillOutLit

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

Christine Lavin

NightThoughtWayMy OwnUniversity

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

LifeFatherMotherTodayManBetter

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