David Mitchell Quotes
I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister, ' he said.
At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.
The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.
Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.
Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.
He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.
Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.