Thornton Wilder Quotes

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Thornton Wilder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.

Jim Lovell

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I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

John Fairchild

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You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

John Wells

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We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

Trey Parker

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I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tracey Emin

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Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.

Roy Halladay

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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman

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I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

Johnny Olson

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My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'

Christina Ricci

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Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

Christina Milian

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Definitely had a lot of training since a young age. My teachers in high school have always helped me, gave me encouragement, taught me so much.

Shanice Williams

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