J.R. Miller Quotes

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.

I rant, therefore I am

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.

My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

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.

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

I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

We create our fate everyday

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

Music without a message is just sound

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.