W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

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I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

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.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.