Mill Quotes

152 quotes by 132 authors

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. — Helen Suzman
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. — Edith Sitwell
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to… — Keith Miller
Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and… — Tom Cruise
I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. — Lee Daniels
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade… — Alan Ryan
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill. — Henry Ward Beecher
In God's mill even chaff becomes flour. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed. — Orison Swett Marden
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened… — Jonathan Raban
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on… — Grant Morrison
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.… — Rohinton Mistry
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if… — Daniel Johnston
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure. — Albert Schweitzer
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest… — Sarah Doudney
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. — John Constable

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