Top 575 Wild Quotes

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for – until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.
Steven Pinker
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
Richard King
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Kim Elizabeth
‘Witches of East End’ is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But ‘Twin Peaks’ still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we’ll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
Madchen Amick
I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.
Jim Carrey
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but ‘Crescent Moon’ reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
Frank Black
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It’s dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
Tullian Tchividjian
Girls always want a reason to get crazy. I get the feeling that girls are crazy anyway, so they just want a reason to really get wild. Why not let it be to a Tyga song?
Tyga
It wasn’t the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing ‘Wild Thing.’
Jeff Beck
Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.
Joy Reid
I like being married. I’m at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don’t go out for wild nights.
Jack Black
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
Steven Spielberg
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to co

I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
Jaron Lanier
The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.
Sarah Lacy
Nicolas Cage is such a phenomenal actor. I’ve been a fan of his forever. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Wild At Heart.’
Giovanni Ribisi
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it – that fellow grows, it grows wild.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It’s kind of wild for me any time anybody says, ‘I love this movie with Lauren Ashley Carter. I’m going to watch all her other movies,’ because that’s exactly the way I feel as a fan of other actors.
Lauren Ashley Carter
My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There’s nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there’s no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt
I don’t put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I’m dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I’m mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
K. Flay
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
John Muir
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
Bernard Barton
OK, I’m not what you’d call ‘wild.’ But I’m no prude, either – I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool.
Shilpa Shetty
If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
Matt Taibbi
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Antioch
Love is the one wild card.
Taylor Swift
I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn’t stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I’m done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.
Gil Scott-Heron
Don’t let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
Naveen Jain
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.
Norm Dicks
I’ve established this kind of wild persona and these redneck party songs and a live show that’s kind of rowdy, but I don’t want people to think that’s what I’m all about.
Morgan Wallen
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it’s where I let my thoughts run wild.
Ella Henderson
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.
Maximillian Degenerez
I’ve blogged since 2001 and was first attracted to the medium by its wild-west aesthetic, if simply telling the truth that corporate media wasn’t telling could be so rebellious as to be defined as ‘wild west.’
Dana Loesch
I was so grateful to have made ‘Into the Wild’ before I made ‘Speed Racer’ because on ‘Speed Racer’ I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.
Emile Hirsch
I’m a musical geek. It’s like there’s this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
Labrinth
Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild… whatever! They’re more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they’re not going to react to situations the same way.
Kate Leth
I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.
Booger McFarland
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin – ‘from the garden.’ I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.
Jean Dujardin
I want to capture and express that passion I see in life all around me to go wild, to push into anywhere we can, and make of those places new domains for life.
Rick Tumlinson
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
Tom G. Palmer
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
Frances Beinecke
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's j

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
I didn’t make ‘Wild Bill’ because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make ‘Wild Bill.’
Dexter Fletcher
You always have to remember – no matter what you’re told – that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.
Cyndi Lauper
There’s no doubt that ‘Breath of the Wild’ is the Switch game I’ve put the most time into.
Reggie Fils-Aime
I wouldn’t go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It’s just a question of when and I’d rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
Rob Lowe
I used to think when I was in the Go-Go’s that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.
Jane Wiedlin
I now walk into the wild.
Christopher McCandless
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. Seuss
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, ‘We think Channing would be better at football…. We love him, he’s really great, but he’s kind of hurting our children.’ I was just a little wild.
Channing Tatum
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
James Wolcott
I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie ‘Wild Things.’ I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.
Jennifer Bini Taylor