J.R. Miller Quotes
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.
As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.
You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.
Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.
If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.
When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.
Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.
The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.
