W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...
If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.
I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
