Millais Quotes

#1. With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

Samuel Barnett

#2. Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#3. Man was not intended to live alone ... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

John Everett Millais

#4. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.

Emily Auerbach

#5. ... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones that broke and skin that tore and hearts that gave up with a sigh and rolled over.

Lauren Oliver

#6. Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire,

Kate Atkinson

#7. I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Rufus Wainwright

#8. Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

William J. Clinton