Arthur Miller Quotes

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Arthur Miller

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• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Civilization
  • Jews
  • Heritage

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Change
  • Struggle
  • Racism

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Stupid
  • Enough
  • Nobody

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • First
  • Literary
  • Meant To Be

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Bird
  • Wings

• I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Experienced
  • Fallen

• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• I'm a lot of work.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Work

• I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Book
  • Model
  • Author

• All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

  

  Judith Anderson
  • Nature
  • Spirit
  • Living

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • May
  • Lost

• A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Free
  • Ignorance