J.R. Miller Quotes

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

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.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Writing is its own reward.

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.

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

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 can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

I've been myself my whole life.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Treat it like your last night. Even if you broke, spend tonight like your cash right.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Great stories move through fear.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

All growth is a leap in the dark.