Christopher Miller Quotes

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • America
  • Happy
  • Boy

• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Wait

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • American
  • Mirror

• I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Niece

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Why
  • Song
  • Words

• Lollapalooza, that was one of my worst shows. We just played at, like, 3 in the afternoon; it was like the hottest, most miserable thing. My shoes were melting. I just thought I was going to die. It was the most horrible experience. I lasted, what, four songs? In front of quite a lot of people. That was one of my least favorites.

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • People
  • Experience
  • Die

• You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

  

  Christopher Miller
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