Top 25 Mills Quotes of 34

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, Injustice, Mills

"The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.

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

Todd Gitlin

Biographies, Mills, Sociologists

Todd Gitlin (2013). “The Intellectuals and the Flag: Reclaiming the American Liberal Tradition”, p.28, Columbia University Press

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Bill Maher

Sea, Environmental, Windmills

"Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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

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

Eileen Favorite

Running, Fiction, Mills

Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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

Chen-Ning Yang

Yang, Structure, Mills

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.

Will Smith

Not Afraid, Treadmills, Dies

"Actor-musician Will Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 13, 2007.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

James Lovelock

Wind Turbines, Energy, Windmills

"James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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

Maureen O'Hara

Parent, Special, Mills

Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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

Mary Stewart

Law, Lightning, Mills

Mary Stewart (1981). “Touch not the cat”, Fawcett Books

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

God, Mills, Flour

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

Emmy Rossum

Thinking, Treadmills

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

James Thomas Fields

Home, Apples, Mills

"In a strange Land". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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

Edith Sitwell

History, Sawdust, Mills

Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.68, A&C Black

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

Charlie Munger

California, Textiles, Mills

Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.