Donald Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
-
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-
I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
-
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
-
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
-
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
-
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
-
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
-
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
-
When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
-
When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
-
My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
-
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
-
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
-
I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
-
I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.
-
I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?
-
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
-
The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.
-
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
-
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
