Top 295 Mill Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.

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 leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

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

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

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.

The first artists i was ever introduced to was Meek Mill and IAmSu!

For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Whatever my singing aspirations are, you'll hear them in 'Aap Ka Suroor.' It's no run-of-the-mill album.

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

What's the Matter with the Mill?

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

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

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

I want to do films that will be remembered, not run-of-the-mill stuff where I stand behind looking pretty as a picture.

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

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

One of my main people I look up to is Meek Mill.

Meek Mill - my homies used to call me 'Meek Millions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. 'Meek Milli,' my friends used to call me.

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to sell their work to journals. They had to sell books to the general public because they could not hold positions in universities. Mill was an atheist, and, therefore, could not hold a position in a university.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

The Mill gets by going.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

'Shakti' is not a run-of-the-mill daily soap.

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

If it is just another run-of-the-mill show, then what is the point?

I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

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

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.

I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I would not favor a form of Kantianism (if there is such a form) that treats Mill's or Sidgwick's moral philosophy with disrespect.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

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

Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

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

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

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

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the mill while I was going to college in the summers. And then, for one stretch, I quit school and worked one year.

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

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

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.