Top 575 Wild Quotes

I have six brothers, and in the past I’ve done quite a few girlie films, like ‘Wild Child’ and ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ – so when they’ve been to those, they’ve been incredibly embarrassed. They won’t be embarrassed going to see ‘Black Death’ – I reckon they’re going to love it.
Kimberley Nixon
Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia’s economy and quality of life.
Jim Justice
I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and

I think couldn’t not make a song called ‘Wild Boy’ and not be a wild boy.
Machine Gun Kelly
I have a wild game camera.
Jenn Suhr
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall
Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You’ve got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
Jack Hanna
What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.
Juliette Lewis
The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob Dylan
One of the things that’s interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
Gabe Newell
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
Beverly Cleary
The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun – the more debauched, the better.
James St. James
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
Emanuel Ax
Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you’re more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!
Ted Danson
‘Curb’ is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I’d never done anything like that.
Amy Landecker
I used to be really wild and dissatisfied and angry and had a journey toward becoming a lady; I think that’s with anybody coming into their own power.
Lauren Ambrose
I looked at motor racing in America where at the Indy 500 the drivers are told ‘gentlemen start your engines’ and the crowd go wild because they know the race is about to start. I needed a hook and came up with ‘let’s get ready to rumble.’
Michael Buffer
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether – so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.
Jonathan Miles
‘Walk on the Wild Side’ was a very catchy song.
Robert Hilburn
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg
I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats – we call them ‘American-style.’ I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors.
Margherita Missoni
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
Bear Grylls
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan
I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
Hayao Miyazaki
July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.
John James Audubon
Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
Martha Reeves
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Quentin Tarantino
I like to get wild.
Eleanor Mondale
Inside every man, there’s a yearning to express your wild side.
Nick Cummins
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
Peter Singer
I’m from New York; I’ve been in show business all my life. I’m a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It’s a pain in the butt. I’m a femme fatale!
Bonnie Bedelia
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
William Cowper
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss i

It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans de Waal
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman
I’m vice chairman of the American Wild Horse Protection Association and honorary chairman of the Wildlife Federation.
Lorne Greene
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
Ann Voskamp
For many years, when people described how the Internet worked – whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there – they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West.
Steven Levy
If you’re young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you’re Hemingway. The next day you’re nothing.
Peter Benchley
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling’s ‘The Elephant’s Child’ and ‘The Jungle Book.’ Deep down, I’ve always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
Michael Morpurgo
Any observer is an intruder in the domain of a wild animal and must remember that the rights of that animal supersede human interests. An observer must also keep in mind that an animal’s memories of one day’s contact might well be reflected in the following day’s behavior.
Dian Fossey
Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.
Jane Goodall
On ‘Senna,’ it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.
Asif Kapadia
It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
Steven Wright
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
Elaine Paige
I never go wild with nails.
Abbey Clancy
I loved London. In the 1970s… it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex – yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The parts for women, you’re either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
Lauren Graham
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
Cary Fowler
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Ada Lovelace
When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched ‘The Wild Wild West,’ and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, ‘That guy is not in the Secret Service. He’s an actor.’ That sounds like a good idea too.
Woody Harrelson
Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.
Eva Amurri
That’s part of my military character, I think. You back one of us into a corner, and you can only expect one thing: us coming at you like wild, rabid dogs.
Tim Kennedy
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover’s eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
Jane Welsh Carlyle
What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we’ve sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
Frances Mayes
Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they’re not there to do what humans want them to – they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don’t hear English; they’re not obedient most of the time.
Marianne Elliott
It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
Pearl White
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
Apollonius of Tyana