Mark Crispin Miller Quotes

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Responsible
  • Genes

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Cancer

• You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore. Ellen Degeneres

  

  Jerry Falwell

• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Fear

• I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

  

  Benh Zeitlin

• The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Friend

• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
  • Customers
  • Invention

• All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

  

  Mark Crispin Miller
  • People
  • Today
  • Shopping