George Armitage Miller Quotes
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
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The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
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I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
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I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
