T. J. Miller Quotes

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

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• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Path
  • Classmates

• You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Single
  • Human

• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Experience
  • Atomic Bomb

• A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Day
  • Woman

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Death
  • Die

• Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Work
  • Dreams
  • Changes

• That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Race
  • U.S.
  • Striving

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fall

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Loss

• It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Mother
  • Interesting
  • Now

• The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Good
  • Born

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Job
  • Knowledge

• It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.

  

  Michele Bachmann
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Teaching

• Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

  

  Quintilian
  • Own
  • Satire
  • Indeed

• Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Life
  • Parent

• Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Almost
  • Effective
  • Satire