Andrew Miller Quotes

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level. ~ Andrew Miller

Can a cat be the true love of a human's life? The one great and enduring emotional connection? ~ Andrew Miller

All of the books, all of them, stay within the same place, the same realm. I read and read and read and I don't find anything that even considers what actually happened to us. ~ Andrew Miller

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so. ~ Andrew Miller

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility. ~ Andrew Miller

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes? ~ Andrew Miller

She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard. ~ Andrew Miller

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. ~ Andrew Miller

Control is an advertising concept. ~ Andrew Miller

It's not about fucking," she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. "It's about our species. We need to breed. ~ Andrew Miller

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping. ~ Andrew Miller

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin. ~ Andrew Miller

Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams. ~ Andrew Miller

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for. ~ James Andrew Miller

Sometimes the heart demands. ~ Andrew Miller

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs. ~ Andrew Miller

Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it. ~ Andrew Miller

Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness. ~ Andrew Miller

The last summer of his life he sat hours together on the old chintz-covered swing-bed in front of the willow tree, chain-smoking Woodbines and watching the shadows flood the lawn until they swallowed him and only the tip of his ciggarette still showed, a faint red pulse. How she had longed to bring him in, to rescue him as he had rescued his sergeant. Her mother wasn't up to it, sitting all day in the kitchen listening to Alma Cogan and Ronnie Hilton on the wireless, biting her nails until they bled. So, it was she who had gone, crossing the lawn at dusk to stand in front of him, waiting for the right words to come into her head, for a dove that would bring her the gift of speech. But nothing came, and he had gazed at her through the smoke of his ciggarette as though from the far side of a pane of glass. He felt sorry for her perhaps, knowing why she had come out, knowing the impossibility of it. But instead of saying, sit down beside me Alice, sit down, daughter, and we will try to understand together the unbearable truth that love is not always enough, that people cannot always be brought back in, he had said, very conservatively, as though in reference to a discussion he had been having with her in his head for weeks, 'They used flame-throwers, you know'. And she had nodded, yes, Daddy, and left him, and gone to her room, and pushed her face into the pillow and bawled. Because she should have done it, should have, and she had failed. ~ Andrew Miller

Take warn­ing, Miller! The Board
has reports on your eccentricities. ~ Philip K. Dick

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference. ~ Andrew O'Hagan

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic. ~ Andrew Sarris

I tried to look earnest, but I only succeeded in looking pathetic. ~ Henry Miller

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one. ~ Shannon Miller

What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face. ~ Andrew Cohen

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own. ~ Andrew Carnegie

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging. ~ Andrew Weil

He falls on her lap and lies there quivering like a toothache ~ Henry Miller

In life, we must choose to quiet ourselves and go through a period of reflection, an instance in time for evaluating our strengths vs. our weaknesses, an interval in time for recognizing the real from deceit, a moment in time for making necessary life adjustments for personal welfare. It's through such, we begin to know ourselves. ~ D. Allen Miller

I cannot tell you how proud watching that [Iraqi] war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that it's, that you know what we're doing is imperialistic. I watch the way we handle ourselves over there and I've never felt more patriotic in my life. ~ Dennis Miller

Also, look for "floating alters." These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at the same time as others. ~ Alison Miller

This book is dedicated to the much needed establishing of greater unity in the wider body of Christ. It is dedicated to agreement with the prayer that Jesus prayed:

"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:"
John 17:20-22 NKJV ~ Andrew Billings

You figure you'll cool it on the time travel for a while. Don't want to see the Dave corpses start to pile up. Especially if one of them winds up being you. ~ Andrew Hussie

It turned out that she did know a little Greek. A few words that her father had picked up and taught her when he heard the army was coming. Mercy was one. Yes and please and what do you want? A father, teaching his daughter how to be a slave. ~ Madeline Miller

Love lifts people up. Love rises above fear. Love shines light on darkness. Love stands tall. ~ Carol 'CC' Miller

Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death. ~ Andrew Davidson

That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool. ~ Madeline Miller

Prayer isn't meant to be a production or a problem... Prayer is meant to be the conversation where your life and your God meet. ~ Paul E. Miller

As Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, "If you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?" (Matt. 5:46). In other words, if I love only when I feel like it, then I've really not understood love. ~ Paul E. Miller

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more. ~ Arthur Miller

You gotta keep that in check - you got to. ~ Alice Miller

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. ~ Andrew Jackson

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. ~ Wentworth Miller

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks. ~ Andrew Weil

See something you like?"

Miller tensed, going tight as a guitar string. "No, but God...Have you ever seen a dick that big before?"

Garrett couldn't resist teasing Miller a little. "Every morning when I take a piss."

"You wish." Miller tore his gaze away from the room's occupants and turned to stare at Garrett. "I remember your dick just fine, and it didn't look anything like that."

"Ah. Now you've gone and hurt my dick's feelings. Maybe you should kiss and make up. ~ Amanda Young

See how the questions of career choices and demo CDs and relocating diminish in the light of God's Kingdom?
Sail by the stars, not the flotsam. ~ Andrew Peterson

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines. ~ Andrew Lansley

A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that is fluid and intangible. ~ Henry Miller

In the beginning was the Word ... Whatever this was, the Word, disease or creation, it was still running rampant; it would run on and on, outstrip time and space, outlast the angels, unseat God, unhook the universe. Any word contained all words - for him who had become detached through love or sorrow or whatever the cause. In every word the current ran back to the beginning which was lost and which would never be found again since there was neither beginning nor end but only that which expressed itself in beginning and end. ~ Henry Miller

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too. ~ Virgil Miller Newton

He is half of my soul, as the poets say. ~ Madeline Miller

And when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious ~ Madeline Miller

Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night. ~ Henry Miller

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. ~ Jessica Collins

I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution. ~ Donald Miller

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. ~ Sarah Miller