Richard Miller quotes

“If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.”
-- Richard Miller

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“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
-- Richard Miller

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“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
-- Richard Miller

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“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”
-- Richard Miller

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“A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.”
-- Richard Miller

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“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”
-- Richard Miller

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“Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.”
-- Richard Miller

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“Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.”
-- Richard Miller

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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.”

“There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.”

“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”

“I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”