Mierins Quotes & Sayings

You should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig. — Ken Follett

I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood. — Michael Lehmann

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player. — Jim Abbott

Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man! — John Adams

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis — John Irving

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde

If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. — Seth Godin

Time is an illusion-to orators. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something. — B.B. King

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. — Matt Lucas