Gene Wilder Quotes

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

Gene Wilder

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Happiness

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Serious
  • Within

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • World
  • Stories
  • Helping

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Health

• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Numbers

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.

  

  Theresa May
  • Relationship
  • Trade
  • Convinced

• The thing that I think is so depressing, fundamentally, about Donald Trump, is that he doesn't appreciate what's happening right now. He doesn't seem to think it's an honor. He doesn't seem to understand why we're actually super blessed to have the government we have. I also don't ever get the sense that he loves Americans.

  

  Alyssa Mastromonaco
  • Americans
  • Loves
  • Donald Trump

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Funny
  • Wife