Donald Miller Quotes
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really like to explain my songs.
-
Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
-
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
-
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
-
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
-
I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
-
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
-
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
-
Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
-
I like music a lot.
-
I like happy endings.
-
I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
-
All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
-
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
-
Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
-
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
-
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
-
I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
-
The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
-
I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.
-
If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
-
Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
-
Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.
-
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
