J.R. Miller Quotes

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

I was taught that pain is bad.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone.

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.

Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.