Into The Wild Materialism Quotes & Sayings

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure. — Geraldine Brooks

I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future. — Walt Disney Company

Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero. — Steve Shaw

A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. — Emily Bronte

If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. — Ed Catmull

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. — Umberto Eco

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall. — Nancy Byrd Turner

... Mellor's statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them. — Richard T. Nash

I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines. — Jay Johnstone

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. — Eli Roth

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Started as a flicker, meant to be a flame. Skin has gotten thicker, but it burns the same. Still a baby in a cradle, got to take my first fall ... baby's getting next to nowhere with her back against the wall. — Sara Bareilles

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics. — Keith Devlin

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit. — John Searles