Will Miller
Will Miller
Will Milleris an American rower. He is a five time US National Team Member and competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics placing 4th. He grew up in Duxbury, MA and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. His father, Bill Miller, was also a US Olympic rower...
two giving weight
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
heart funeral march
...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
cheese want swiss
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
memories half useless
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
character thinking feelings
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
summer morning school
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.
years alive ends
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
men exhausted small-man
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
failure character attention
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
games life-is pastime
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
life commitment tragedy
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
writing play trying
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
mind breathless god-is-dead
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
insane knows
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!