Calvin Miller Quotes

Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.

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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Good
  • New
  • Zealand

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
  • She
  • Strong

• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • America
  • Think
  • Community

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Sleep
  • Succeed
  • Decency

• Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • You
  • See

• For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Indispensable
  • Presents

• The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Future
  • Die

• So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that 'it happened' – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense 'the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context').

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Design

• I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset

• I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Country

• Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Achieve

• I'm happy as a book publisher. I loved my 19 years being a C.E.O. I loved it to distraction, but I couldn't do it till I'm 80.

  

  Peter Mayer
  • Book
  • Happy

• After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.

  

  James Carville
  • True

• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Confused

• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Earth

• Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.

  

  Calvin Miller
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