Linsey Miller Quotes

I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me. If I stopped, if I let their deaths weigh me down and keep me from being Opal, it was all for nothing. There was no going back. I was what I was, and they were a part of me now. ~ Linsey Miller

He smiled, and his face was like the sun. ~ Madeline Miller

I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet. ~ Mary J. Miller

I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself. ~ Mary Miller

Bodybreaking, they called it. What happened when the breaks finally killed you. The moment your mind's hold on the here and now finally ruptured forever and you broke free from your body. ~ Sam J. Miller

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men. ~ Sue Miller

Even the idiot may have a message for us ~ Henry Miller

I always wanted to represent the natural, healthy girl, and I didn't care if it was cool or trendy to look like you hadn't eaten in two weeks. ~ Marisa Miller

Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,
Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie. ~ Frank Miller

Linsey pulled away, smiling in a way that would have made him look almost
angelic if it wasn't for the blood smeared around his mouth. When he licked his lips clean, the angelic image became clearer. Blood welled up from two small cuts on his bottom lip, pooling in the full sweep his skin. I knew it wasn't just my blood that I'd tasted. ~ Cyrese Covelli

I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom in the mushroom oasis of America. I belong on the heavy tree of the past. My allegiance, physical and spiritual, it is with the men of Europe, those who were once Franks, Gauls, Vikings, Huns, Tatars, what not. The climate for my body and soul is here where there is quickness and corruption. I am proud not to belong in this century. ~ Henry Miller

Alice Miller has summed up these rules under the title "Poisonous Pedagogy" in her book For Your Own Good. These rules state: 1. Adults are the masters of the dependent child. 2. They determine in godlike fashion what is right and what is wrong. 3. The child is held responsible for the parents' anger. 4. The parents must always be shielded. 5. The child's life-affirming feelings pose a threat to the autocratic adult. 6. The child's will must be "broken" as soon as possible. 7. All this must happen at a very early age so that the child "won't notice" and will therefore not be able to expose the adult. ~ John Bradshaw

Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she'd all but had herself vaccinated against it. ~ Linda Lael Miller

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. ~ Henry Miller

Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves ~ Frank Miller

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed. ~ Penelope Ann Miller

Lucey had been younger then - younger and wilder, and not afraid of shame. ~ Walter M. Miller Jr.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important. ~ Arthur Miller

As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone. ~ Madeline Miller

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. ~ Isobel Miller Kuhn

HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have
to come out number-one man. ~ Arthur Miller

I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller. ~ James Berardinelli

The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised ... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy ... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on. ~ Dennis Miller

In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated. ~ Henry Miller

I don't know if you have ever tried to read Moby-Dick on a DS in a Tesco car park - I doubt you have - but I cannot recommend it. The two miniature screens, so in harmony with the escapades of Super Mario and Lego Batman, do not lend themselves to the study of this arcane, eldritch text; and nor does the constant clamor of a small boy in the back seat asking when he can have his DS back. ~ Andy Miller

Life it too short to deal with crazy people. ~ Karen E. Quinones Miller

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives ... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs. ~ Laura Miller

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold. ~ Henry Miller

Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease. ~ Karen Maezen Miller

I pressed as close as he would let me, like a lizard to noonday rocks. ~ Madeline Miller

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear. ~ Sue Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims. ~ Arthur Miller

You are all things on Earth, and all things on Earth are you ~ Brian E. Miller

Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of. ~ Sarah Miller

So, was it an accident or Diana's life's great purpose: to die in a way that would mean that she will always be loved? You decide. ~ Christopher Miller

I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project. ~ Mary J. Miller

Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination. ~ Calvin Miller

Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan. ~ Rhett Miller

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. ~ Marilyn Suzanne Miller

The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. ~ Judith Miller

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient. ~ Henry Miller

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

Trust me, after thirty-one and a half years of knowing what love doesn't feel like, I think I'm a goddamn expert at recognizing when the real thing comes along to rip right into my heart.
She swallowed, making the skin at her throat flutter. "I've ripped right into your heart?"
"Uh-huh. Brutally. Savagely."
"But I didn't mean to," she said, sadly.
"I know, baby. That was just fate doing its thing. ~ Raine Miller

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to. ~ Frank Miller

I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button. ~ John Jackson Miller

You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep. ~ John Jackson Miller