1.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
Aldo Leopold
4.
I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
Maurice Sendak
5.
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.
Edith Pattou
7.
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
Willa Cather
8.
There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.
Maurice Sendak
9.
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Maurice Sendak
10.
Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
Maurice Sendak
12.
Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
Maurice Sendak
13.
He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.
Tone-Loc
14.
Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.
Spike Jonze
15.
I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence
17.
The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.
Spike Jonze