J.R. Miller Quotes

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

No man can Become Rich without enriching others.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

I don't go to a gym. I find that really hard to do.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.