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  • Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

  • A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should.

    "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.
  • For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

  • Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

    Taken   Sunset   Wind  
    Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press
  • You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

    Heart   Giving   Stronger  
    "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", www.imdb.com. 1961.
  • A wild thing may say wild things.

  • The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

    Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.133, Courier Corporation
  • I would have to say Björk is my dream collaboration. She's just such a character and has such a spirit that is unlike any other artist out there. She's literally on a whole 'nother planet. She's consistently changing and evolving and doing these different wild things with her songs. I think I could learn a lot from a person like that.

    Dream   Song   Character  
  • I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

    Nice   Dark   Thinking  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

    Memories   Lying   Father  
  • Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

    World   Want   Realizing  
    Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com
  • I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

    Hate   Book   May  
  • It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

  • Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

    Running   Hurt   Strong  
    Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage
  • And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

    Eye   Teeth   Claws  
    Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

    Summer   Hurt   Mean  
  • It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

    Ink   Stories   Firsts  
  • Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

  • But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?

    Wall   Night   Darkness  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

    Nature   Stars   Children  
    Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press
  • In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

    Children   Fun   Nice  
  • My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

    Hurt   Men   Drug  
    Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.
  • I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

    "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.
  • Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

    Song   Love You   Eye  
  • Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

    "Looking Back On 'Wild Things' With Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 23, 2009.
  • When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

    Needs   Purpose   Rooms  
    "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.
  • It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

    Rocks   People   Giants  
  • I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

  • Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

    Beautiful   Country   Men  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.358, Cambria Press
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