Quote

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Arthur Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
Looks
Feel
Feels
Way
People
Supply
Leadership
Others
Look

More quotes by Arthur Miller

Image
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller
Image
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
Arthur Miller
Image
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller
Image
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
Arthur Miller
Image
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Image
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
Arthur Miller
Image
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
Image
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller
Image
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
Image
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
Arthur Miller
Image
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Arthur Miller
Image
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
Arthur Miller
Image
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
Image
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
Arthur Miller
Image
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
Image
For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
Arthur Miller
Image
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.
Arthur Miller
Image
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
Image
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
Arthur Miller
Image
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
Arthur Miller