H. T. Miller Quotes

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

... vulgarity has no nation.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Words are loneliness.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

There are no answers, only choices.

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.