Mills famous quotes

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Mills

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Running #Mills #Persons

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
-- Bill Haywood

#Gold #Mills #Owners

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
-- Colin MacInnes

#Wheels #Tradition #Mills

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
-- Edith Sitwell

#History #Sawdust #Mills

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
-- Eileen Favorite

#Running #Fiction #Mills

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Artist #Cockroaches #Mills

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
-- Fanny Kemble

#Islands #Sugar #Mills

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
-- Friedrich von Logau

#Grind #Mills

It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
-- Golo Mann

#Steel #Easy #Mills

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
-- Henry James

#Wish #Looks #Mills

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
-- James Thomas Fields

#Home #Apples #Mills

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
-- John Milton

#Slave #Mills #Gaza

The mills of God grind slowly.
-- Lord Acton

#Grind #Mills

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
-- Mary Stewart

#Law #Lightning #Mills

What's the Matter with the Mill?
-- Memphis Minnie

#Matter #Mills

Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
-- Oliver Burkeman

#Eye #Philosopher #Mills

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
-- Orison Swett Marden

#Water #Grind #Mills

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
-- Percy Jewett Burrell

#Father #Personality #Mills

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
-- Todd Gitlin

#Biographies #Mills #Sociologists

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?
-- Trenton Lee Stewart

#Daddy #Mills

The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
-- Dale Jamieson

#Ideas #Mills #Committed

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
-- Maureen O'Hara

#Parent #Special #Mills

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over
-- Andy Burnham

#Drama #Mills #Humour

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
-- Chen-Ning Yang

#Yang #Structure #Mills