Sue Miller Quotes

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

Sue Miller

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Heart
  • Home

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Vision

• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Kings
  • Sons
  • Companions

• I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Like
  • Design
  • Clothing

• Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Passion

• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Fashion
  • Focus
  • Media

• When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Night

• When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Music
  • Art
  • Financial

• Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Movie
  • Director
  • Dave Mamet

• The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Men
  • Truth
  • War

• But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Remember
  • Hand

• And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Moments