Famous quotes by George Miller:
"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."
".The trouble with eating"
"We are rushing forward with this legislation . . . without any information."
"He is out of the hospital and is recovering at home."
"People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars."
"The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities."
"In New Orleans, where a quarter of the city was poor, the prevailing wage for construction labor is about $9 per hour, according to the Department of Labor. In effect, President Bush is saying that people should be paid less than $9 an hour to rebuild their communities."
"[Miller said the passage of the bond was important, since he expects the value of the property to increase in the coming years, which would make it a more expensive purchase for taxpayers.] Looking at it from a money point of view, I think we did the right thing, ... We knew it was going to pass."
"If the quality is there, and it's compelling, audiences will commit. Not only will they commit, they will also buy the DVD and watch it over and over again. And that's the trick, how to make it compelling. If it speaks to the audience, we will listen."
"[All were] pivotal stories in the Australian narrative ... And obviously there is something elemental about the stories, and if that is the case, they speak across time to us today."
"I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts."
"President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education."
"I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool."
"Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot."
"Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?"
"No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it."
"I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive."
"It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative."