J.R. Miller Quotes
A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
