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
  • Companions
  • Sons

• 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

• When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Book
  • Pages
  • Fats

• I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Year
  • Difference

• You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

  

  Bill Atkinson
  • People
  • Empowering

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

  

  Dustin Yellin
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• 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