Mills Quotes

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

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.

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

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

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

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

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

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

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.

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

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

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

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

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

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

The Mill gets by going.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

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

I never wanted to be run of the mill.