Frank Miller quote: "I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life."

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over h...
FRANK MILLER

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the sam...
FRANK MILLER

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact tha...
FRANK MILLER

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodsto...
FRANK MILLER

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are r...
FRANK MILLER

Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the s...
FRANK MILLER

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme ca...
FRANK MILLER

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks...
FRANK MILLER

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of...
FRANK MILLER

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish a...
FRANK MILLER

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact...
FRANK MILLER

I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on ...
FRANK MILLER

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The...
FRANK MILLER

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all rai...
FRANK MILLER

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
FRANK MILLER

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting u...
FRANK MILLER

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it'...
FRANK MILLER

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ...
FRANK MILLER

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson W...
FRANK MILLER

can lightening strike twice?
FRANK MILLER

Sure I can.
FRANK MILLER

Or at least the ends justify being really mean!
FRANK MILLER

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
FRANK MILLER

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how th...
FRANK MILLER

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I w...
FRANK MILLER

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so...
FRANK MILLER

Those of us who wanted to test the boundaries of what a superhero comic book could do, unfortunately...
FRANK MILLER

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazi...
FRANK MILLER

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up th...
FRANK MILLER

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doin...
FRANK MILLER

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defin...
FRANK MILLER

Give them nothing, but take from them everything.
FRANK MILLER

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked ...
FRANK MILLER

You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents t...
FRANK MILLER

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occ...
FRANK MILLER

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Some...
FRANK MILLER

In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japa...
FRANK MILLER

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the '...
FRANK MILLER

Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're a blessing from above. You're Mother Theresa. You're G...
FRANK MILLER

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH o...
FRANK MILLER

Of course we're Criminals
FRANK MILLER

A gun is a liar's weapon
FRANK MILLER

Remember, America... not Wind like a watch, but Wind... like the air...
FRANK MILLER

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.
FRANK MILLER

He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal reveng...
FRANK MILLER

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ...
FRANK MILLER

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
LAUREN MILLER

I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.
ROMEO MILLER

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has bee...
ZELL MILLER

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George ...
ZELL MILLER

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
ZELL MILLER

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
ZELL MILLER

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Cam...
ZELL MILLER

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyr...
ZELL MILLER

My family is more important than my party.
ZELL MILLER

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray h...
ZELL MILLER

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
JACK MILLER

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, ...
JACK MILLER

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of...
OLIN MILLER

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
OLIN MILLER

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
OLIN MILLER

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
OLIN MILLER

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other ...
OLIN MILLER

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser toda...
OLIN MILLER

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle...
OLIN MILLER

'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
PATINA MILLER

I went to Carnegie Mellon.
PATINA MILLER

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
PATINA MILLER

I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
PATINA MILLER

That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and th...
PATINA MILLER

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afrai...
PATINA MILLER

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comf...
PATINA MILLER

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in ...
PATINA MILLER

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
PATINA MILLER

I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'...
PATINA MILLER

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartende...
PATINA MILLER

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services.....
LAURA MILLER

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who...
LAURA MILLER

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our busines...
LAURA MILLER

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.
LAURA MILLER

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
LAURA MILLER

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind close...
LAURA MILLER

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. Yo...
LAURA MILLER

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus o...
LAURA MILLER

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - t...
LAURA MILLER

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start lookin...
LAURA MILLER

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at Ci...
LAURA MILLER

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
LAURA MILLER

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
LAURA MILLER

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax mone...
LAURA MILLER

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the cit...
LAURA MILLER

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we ...
LAURA MILLER

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, th...
LARRY MILLER

Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for ...
LARRY MILLER

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
LARRY MILLER

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
WENTWORTH MILLER

I'm the black sheep.
SIENNA MILLER

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include...
GARY MILLER

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This i...
GARY MILLER

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated numbe...
GARY MILLER

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospi...
GARY MILLER

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
GARY MILLER

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their cit...
GARY MILLER

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and repre...
GARY MILLER

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout...
GARY MILLER

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
GARY MILLER

In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasol...
GARY MILLER

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensu...
GARY MILLER

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible ...
GARY MILLER

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezue...
GARY MILLER

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more ...
GARY MILLER

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably...
GARY MILLER

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by globa...
GARY MILLER

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90...
GARY MILLER

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
GARY MILLER

My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck...
WENTWORTH MILLER

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody...
CHRISTOPHER MILLER

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
JOAQUIN MILLER

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came ...
MADELINE MILLER

Texas is a place where there are no limits on individual or political committee contributions and do...
ALAN MILLER

Our biggest concern is to give them help and to give them a home. We'll be there as long as needed,
ALAN MILLER

How to get them back and forth must be worked out, probably with the help of VIA,
ALAN MILLER

Most of the jobs are entry-level: tellers, assemblers and retail sales,
ALAN MILLER

This is a situation none of us have faced before, ... How many people who will stay here is hard to ...
ALAN MILLER

Many of the employers that have offered jobs for the evacuees also have other jobs publicly posted w...
ALAN MILLER

The jobs being offered for evacuees are not taking anything away from our own residents,
ALAN MILLER

The money's going up, the stakes are up, the professionalism's up. The days of doing stuff on a napk...
ALAN MILLER

It's an example of how people are buying into the administration's line that there is a terrorist be...
ALAN MILLER

This was a great tribute to Hector. ... I got a little choked up on the starting line. ... Over 500 ...
ALAN MILLER

I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly tu...
MARISA MILLER

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
HENRY MILLER

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and h...
BRYAN MILLER

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the ...
HENRY MILLER

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.
KEITH MILLER

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
OLIN MILLER

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.
SIENNA MILLER

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
HENRY MILLER

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to ...
HENRY MILLER

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It o...
HENRY MILLER

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can ...
HENRY MILLER

A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and ...
HENRY MILLER

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
HENRY MILLER

I felt pretty good, better than I thought I would.
AARON MILLER

The outcome was not what I was looking for in my first game back. I feel better than I thought I wou...
AARON MILLER

It's a time where both sides would have to look inward to try to get some sense of what their public...
AARON MILLER

I skated pretty good today, but my back gets tired. It's going to take some time, but I'm not exactl...
AARON MILLER

I don't suspect you're going to see much taking place next year because next year is what I would ca...
AARON MILLER

We really needed a win. We needed to change the feeling in this (dressing) room.
AARON MILLER

We didn't play well (Wednesday) night,
AARON MILLER

It's clear that Gaza first cannot be Gaza only ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there's no questio...
AARON MILLER

If a guy like Jeremy Roenick or a Brian Leetch goes out and plays great, I would think they're going...
AARON MILLER

The last time, 15 guys were pretty much a lock. Now it's pretty wide open. There are a lot of younge...
AARON MILLER

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed els...
HENRY MILLER

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
BODE MILLER

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
HENRY MILLER

One loss is not going to kill us, but it is never good to take a loss. But we are lucky enough to ha...
ADAM MILLER

We are hiding him a little bit. It's really not by design. We switched a few things with him in batt...
ADAM MILLER

We are just taking it step by step. This was another big win for us.
ADAM MILLER

We are going to need him. He is our No. 2 pitcher.
ADAM MILLER

Compliance management is a serious concern for many industries. Cornerstone Compliance provides a co...
ADAM MILLER

He consistently gets better. If we can keep him under control mentally he is going to be tough. He's...
ADAM MILLER

We have firm policies prohibiting payola and requiring compliance with the federal sponsor identific...
ADAM MILLER

You get to see it all in show choir ? Broadway, pop, cowboy tap dancing and comedy.
ADAM MILLER

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
WARREN MILLER

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in t...
HENRY MILLER

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He i...
HENRY MILLER

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I ...
HENRY MILLER

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about thre...
HARLAN MILLER

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
OLIN MILLER

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own insti...
HENRY MILLER

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
HENRY MILLER

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...
HENRY MILLER

All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itse...
KIRSTEN MILLER

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Frank Miller

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