Caroline Pafford Miller Quotes

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

Caroline Pafford Miller

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• I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Working
  • Director

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Father
  • Want

• I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me, and I want you to know, I will work my heart out to make sure Al Gore is the next president of the United States.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Work
  • Heart
  • United States

• I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Play
  • Faces
  • Causes

• You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Success

• New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.

  

  Beth Anderson
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Intense

• It worked out all right. It really did. I give (Cosell) a lot of credit for setting a certain tone. He made my job so much easier.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Job
  • Credit

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • My Wife

• Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

  

  Dr. John
  • Environment
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • God
  • Country
  • Money

• I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

  

  Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  • Pity

• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Pity
  • Reform

• Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

  

  Caroline Pafford Miller
  • Drink
  • Pity