J.R. Miller Quotes

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.