Miller Williams Quotes

For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.

Miller Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 8, 1930

Topics

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I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Jesse Eisenberg

AgePeopleFeelFriendsKnowMature

The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

Jerry Reinsdorf

BusinessSupportOwnershipWillFine

I worked for a breakfast catering company on commercial shoots, which meant getting up at 3 or 4 A.M. and loading up your car with a bunch of food and driving out to some set in Santa Clarita and making breakfast for a bunch of people.

Matt Letscher

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To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.

John Woo

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I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Steve Irwin

I AmPlanetWorkingOurManyAm

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Spike Lee

MeDoctorLawyerThinkMoviesFilm

When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.

Stewart Butterfield

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I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.'

Tom Verica

DreamsI AmProudAmericanMostAm

There are lots of reasons people come to Beyonce shows. There's the music, her dancing; all in all a bedazzling show. She's a great performer and singer.

Luke James

MusicGreatPeopleSheSingerHer

Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.

Jean Chatzky

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I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

Don Imus

UniqueI CanWantPosition

He has your finger, but I have your heart.

Brian Celio

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