Arthur Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
-
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
-
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
-
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
-
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
-
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
-
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
-
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
-
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
-
When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
-
Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
-
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
-
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
-
Sometimes you have to understand your place.
-
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
-
If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
-
What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
-
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
-
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
-
If my parents were to hear that their son won an Academy Award, they'd roll over in their graves. I was the luckiest person, but that luck came through the grace of Muhammad Ali.
-
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
-
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
-
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
