Top 100 Mcmillan Quotes
#1. And you can drop the uninterested shtick right now, Mr. McMillan." That sounded a little like Marilyn Monroe saying Mr. President, didn't it? Yes, it did. And, booyah! "I know you want to.
Julie Ann Walker
#2. My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
Tananarive Due
#3. Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'
Mark Pellegrino
#4. I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
June Squibb
#5. Holy hell! Bryan "Mac" McMillan kissed her. Then grinned. And then winked.
Julie Ann Walker
#6. Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.
Tracy McMillan
#7. Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
Terry McMillan
#8. You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, and I hate that I cheated on you, and I wish we'd never gotten divorced.
Terry McMillan
#9. Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.
Lisa Renee Jones
#10. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.
Terry McMillan
#12. Look guys, I am your worst nightmare. I'm a woman with a badge, a gun, and PMS. Are you really sure you want to piss me off any more tonight?
K.V. McMillan
#13. Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
Terry McMillan
#14. Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
Terry McMillan
#15. I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
Terry McMillan
#16. Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.
Terry McMillan
#17. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.
Cecily McMillan
#18. I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
Terry McMillan
#19. If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.
Terry McMillan
#20. Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
Terry McMillan
#21. The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#23. If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.
Cecily McMillan
#24. It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.
Terry McMillan
#25. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#26. I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.
Cecily McMillan
#27. Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
Terry McMillan
#28. love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back
Andrew McMillan
#29. Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
Terry McMillan
#30. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
Cecily McMillan
#31. On 8 April 2003, SSgt Scott Sather, a combat controller, became the first Airman killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (32)
McMillan Study Guides Inc.
#32. Money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
Terry McMillan
#33. Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right?
Lisa Renee Jones
#34. People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.
Tracy McMillan
#35. Every human being I know craves love and affection.
Terry McMillan
#36. Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.
Tracy McMillan
#37. I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.
Terry McMillan
#38. I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
Terry McMillan
#39. I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.
Cecily McMillan
#40. Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.
Terry McMillan
#41. If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you.
Tracy McMillan
#42. Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
Tracy McMillan
#43. Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
Tracy McMillan
#44. Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.
Tracy McMillan
#45. Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.
Tracy McMillan
#46. It is clear to me right this minute that regret is just a wasted emotion.
Terry McMillan
#47. Fears are like chains that lock you right in the place where you are most vulnerable.
Jean-Louis McMillan
#48. The thing is, relationships never work out ... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.
Tracy McMillan
#49. If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.
Ron McMillan
#50. So are you happy? he asks.
I hate it when anyone asks me that. It's such a loaded fucking question. Are they talking aggregate years? Doesn't it depend on the day, the moment? Or are they referring to last year or last month?
Terry McMillan
#51. I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
Terry McMillan
#52. I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
Terry McMillan
#53. Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; ( ... )
Tracie McMillan
#54. I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.
Terry McMillan
#55. I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
Terry McMillan
#56. You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.
Tracy McMillan
#57. No matter what other plans are out there, this is the best plan.
Tom McMillan
#59. Being one's true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.
Andrew McMillan
#60. Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.
Tracy McMillan
#61. I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
Terry McMillan
#63. I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
Terry McMillan
#64. I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
Terry McMillan
#65. One problem with making moral compromises is that doing the right thing becomes increasingly difficult: it requires admitting that one's earlier acts were wrong. In effect, to get clean, one must first get dirtier, a step that few proved willing to take.
Dan McMillan
#66. Over the years it became clear that sometimes you fall in love only to realize you don't even like the person.
Terry McMillan
#67. It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.
Terry McMillan
#68. I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.
Tracy McMillan
#70. I like gay men who don't hate women, and I don't mind being around rich white people, because there's plenty of them in the Bay Area, and I know how to ignore Republicans.
Terry McMillan
#71. Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going
Tracy McMillan
#72. Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.
Tracy McMillan
#73. I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.
Tracy McMillan
#74. You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.
Terry McMillan
#75. Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.
Terry McMillan
#76. All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.
Tracy McMillan
#77. It's time to write dangerous music. It's time to take risks. It's time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It's time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.
John Mark McMillan
#78. I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
Terry McMillan
#79. I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.
Terry McMillan
#80. Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.
Tracy McMillan
#81. Don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
Terry McMillan
#82. If it works, I'll be happy for you. If it doesn't, I'll be here for you.
Terry McMillan
#83. At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
Terry McMillan
#84. People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
Tracy McMillan
#85. Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.
Terry McMillan
#86. Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!
Terry McMillan
#87. As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.
Terry McMillan
#88. Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
Tracy McMillan
#89. I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.
Terry McMillan
#90. I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.
Tracy McMillan
#91. We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
Terry McMillan
#92. I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
Terry McMillan
#93. Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
Terry McMillan
#94. People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
Terry McMillan
#95. It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.
Terry McMillan
#96. Most women are amazing. They just need to be with someone who makes it easy for them to express it. I think it's called respect.
Terry McMillan
#97. Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ...
Terry McMillan
#98. I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.
Tracy McMillan
#99. The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
Terry McMillan
#100. It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.
Terry McMillan
