W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

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.

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

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

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

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

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

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.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone

Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?

I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.

For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.