J.R. Miller Quotes
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.
Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.
I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree
I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.
When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!
It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.
Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
