Harland Miller famous quotes

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
-- Harland Miller

#Marriage #Successful #Differences

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
-- Harland Miller

#Insecure #Worry #Trouble

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.
-- Harland Miller

#Christmas #Years #Light

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.
-- Harland Miller

#Art #Thinking #Flats

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
-- Harland Miller

#People #Towns #Warp

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.