J.R. Miller Quotes

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

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.

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.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.