I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.
What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
Penny Lane: Call me if you need a rescue, we live in the same city. William Miller: Sometimes I think I live in a different world.
Russell Hammond: Your mom kind of freaked me out. William Miller: [places hand on Russell's shoulder] She means well.
[Finally getting his interview with Russell Hammond] William Miller: So Russell... what do you love about music? Russell Hammond: To begin with, everything.
Anita Miller: One day you'll be cool. Look under your bed, it'll set you free.
Beth from Denver: Don't worry William, I've seen the future and this all works out reasonably well. William Miller: Reasonably well?
William Miller: Don't you have any regular friends? Penny Lane: Famous people are just more interesting.
Penny Lane: Vic is a Zeppelin fan. William Miller: I picked that up. Penny Lane: He tours with them, but not, you know, with them.
Lester Bangs: What are you listening to? William Miller: Stillwater. Lester Bangs: Stillwater? [to himself] Lester Bangs: Fucking kid's doing drugs.
Mr. George Miller: Take off your clothes, just like we do at bath time. You too, Evan.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.
I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.
