W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Crackers are short on sparkle.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.