Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. " "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks. . . . My father. . . removed from Kentucky to. . . Indiana, in my eighth year. . . . It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. . . . Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher. . . but that was all.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.
People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.
When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing. . . it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity. When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.