Top 100 Quotes About Millar
#1. Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'
Millar Burrows
#2. I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature
Samuel Johnson
#3. I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.
Michael O'Leary
#4. Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.
Dorianne Laux
#5. For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.
Mark Millar
#7. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
Ian Millar
#8. I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.
Mark Millar
#9. The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.
Margaret Millar
#10. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.
David H. Millar
#11. The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.
Martin Millar
#12. She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
Mark Millar
#13. In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.
David Millar
#14. I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
Mark Millar
#15. The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
Margaret Millar
#16. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
Margaret Millar
#17. Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped.
David Millar
#18. One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.
Mark Millar
#19. GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!
Mark Millar
#20. That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
Margaret Millar
#21. But I also asked why they didn't chase their dreams. How many rock stars just settled for accountancy? How many astronauts grew up to be psychologists? Other kids were playing Mafia Wars, we were taking down the fucking Mafia and no it wasn't normal. It wasn't even close.
Mark Millar
#22. I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.
David Millar
#23. I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo book I'm doing is a female-led story, and I'm doing another series with John Romita which is a female-led story as well.
Mark Millar
#24. Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."
Mark Millar
#25. When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.
Martin Millar
#26. However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
Mark Millar
#27. If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.
David Millar
#28. I'd never considered myself to be that ambitious or driven before, yet I stood there waiting for us to roll out through the start line knowing that taking part wasn't enough. I wanted to be a racer, not just a finisher.
David Millar
#30. The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...
Margaret Millar
#31. But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar
#32. People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both of these shows. You don't know quite what it is, and that's great.
Miles Millar
#33. I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.
Mark Millar
#34. We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
Mark Millar
#35. Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
David Millar
#36. The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.
Kevin Millar
#37. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
Margaret Millar
#38. I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
Mark Millar
#39. Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.
Mark Millar
#40. The key to preaching, then, is to make the message of the text obvious. Help people to see it and feel it. Help people to understand the text. Paul is talking about what I would call 'expository preaching', in which the message of the text is the message of the sermon.
J. Gary Millar
#41. The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.
David Millar
#42. I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
David Millar
#43. I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.
David Millar
#44. Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived.
Anarchy in black.
Mark Millar
#45. They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.
Mike Millar
#46. You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen."
"I wasn't born with it."
"Where did you get it?"
'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.
Margaret Millar
#47. I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
Mark Millar
#48. Only difference between a dream and a nightmare is how big your balls are, bitch. (The Fox)
Mark Millar
#49. Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.
Kevin Millar
#50. Why train for years to do a job, you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time.
Mark Millar
#51. Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
Margaret Millar
#52. When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
Margaret Millar
#53. I was desperate to work with Stuart Immonen, who I have talked with for several years about doing a project together. So just the stars aligned. I knew that Stuart had a little break in his schedule, where he would be willing to do a project with me. So this year I've been very lucky.
Mark Millar
#54. I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.
David Millar
#55. Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.
David Millar
#56. What's a matter Chris? You shitting yourself? You should be!
Mark Millar
#57. It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.
David Millar
#58. It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
David Millar
#59. The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.
Mark Millar
#60. There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.
Mark Millar
#61. Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.
Mark Millar
#62. Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
Mark Millar
#64. Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?
Mark Millar
#65. Like most people my age, I merely existed.
Mark Millar
#66. Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.
Martin Millar
#67. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
David Millar
#68. I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.
David Millar
#69. Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.
Martin Millar
#70. He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.
Mark Millar
#71. We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. We thought it would make a very compelling season of television. We were like, "Someone is going to make this. Why don't we do it?"
Miles Millar
#72. Receptionist also added super-breath when I offered her twenty bucks.
Mark Millar
#73. I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.
Mark Millar
#74. The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
Mark Millar
#75. What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.
Mark Millar
#76. It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.
Mark Millar
#77. I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.
David Millar
#78. Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
Mark Millar
#79. The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
Mark Millar
#80. One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.
David Millar
#81. There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement.
Miles Millar
#82. The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.
David Millar
#83. The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
Margaret Millar
#84. When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
#85. What we had yesterday has gone away. What we have today will only last this day. What we will have twomorrow no one can take away. So treasure the moments given, appreciate what is offered.
Mark Millar
#86. It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
Mark Millar
#87. At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
Mark Millar
#88. The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.
Mark Millar
#89. We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Mark Millar
#90. I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now ...
Mark Millar
#91. If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.
Martin Millar
#92. Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.
Martin Millar
#93. All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.
Mark Millar
#94. Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
Margaret Millar
#95. I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.
Ian Millar
#96. The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar
#97. As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used ... it's virtually unrecognizable.
Ian Millar
#98. I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.
Mark Millar
#99. The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
Margaret Millar
#100. I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.
Martin Millar
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