J.R. Miller Quotes

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

Worm theology is too high for me.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Some call me a gangster of love

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

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

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!

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.

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

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

Trends don't mean anything to me. If I like something, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't do it, and I wouldn't care if everybody in the country mocked me.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

Empathy grows as we learn.

I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.