J.R. Miller Quotes

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

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

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

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

I've been myself my whole life.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

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.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

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

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

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers!

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.