Marion Milner Quotes

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Marion Milner

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Working

• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Safe
  • Daring

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Works
  • Divine
  • Slaves

• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Vanity
  • Lot

• In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Experience
  • Desire
  • motivation

• We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

  

  Homer
  • Men
  • Races
  • Flare

• Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Good
  • Technology

• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

  

  John Hersey
  • World
  • Fear

• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Band

• There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Fear
  • Obstacles