Dennis Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
-
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
-
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
-
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
-
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
-
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
-
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
-
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
-
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
-
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
-
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
-
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
-
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
-
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
-
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
-
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
-
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
-
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
-
She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.
-
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
-
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
-
In moments of great grief, that's where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
-
'The Death of Common Sense'.
