Jonathan Miller Quotes

"Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us."
-Jonathan Miller in Choice quotes.

"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."
-Jonathan Miller

"What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is."
-Jonathan Miller

"Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas."
-Jonathan Miller in Humor quotes.

"Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors."
-Jonathan Miller

"It is only right that we help provide financial security for the families of those brave men and women who are providing for our nation's security, ... That's what the Military Families' Bill of Rights is all about."
-Jonathan Miller

"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know."
-Jonathan Miller in Doctors quotes.

"I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog."
-Jonathan Miller