Mills Quotes - Page 2

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

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.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

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

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

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Going and running, just to run on the treadmill, wasn't my thing.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.

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.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

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

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.

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

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

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

The Mill gets by going.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

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.

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

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.