Arthur Miller Quotes

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Sorrow
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Help
  • Death
  • Leaving

• I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fight
  • Take
  • Him

• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Business
  • Dad
  • Just

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Earth
  • New York
  • Kid

• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Hardest
  • Overcome

• When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Classmates

• Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Cooking
  • Depth

• At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Age
  • Respect
  • End

• Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Baseball

• We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Culture

• One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Life
  • Happy

• My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.

  

  Kit Harington
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Sing
  • Heard
  • Ears

• I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

  

  Arthur Miller