W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

I am as constant as a northern star

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.