J.R. Miller Quotes

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.

I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Of course we're Criminals

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Greenspan wants to go out quietly.

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

Better to separate than never to marry.

Paint what you like and die happy

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.