Mike Mills Quotes

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Mike Mills

• Together
• Memories
• Rich
• Grief
• Left
• Slippery

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• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Age
  • Mom

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unseen

• My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Fun
  • Style
  • Ugly

• I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Home
  • Business
  • Game

• I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Moonlight

• My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Plant

• I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.

  

  Danny Nucci
  • Always
  • Found
  • Cornucopia

• If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up

• Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • Together
  • Night

• A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Together
  • Patient
  • Operation

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Together
  • Memories
  • Rich