W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
You could say I’m so manly I don’t even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions
I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.
Putting the past behind you isn't like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own.
…there was no more that I could do to make myself look better in that moment than smile and be kind…
There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?
Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!
Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.
I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.
And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.
Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.
I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.
...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.
Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.
It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.
Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.
But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.
Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret
What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision.
You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.
Holly rubs her temples. “Are we talking ... vampires?”Arkady groans. “On, the V-word! Here it comes again.
We need to go beyond the "Crossroads" to healing as a nation, to not loose focus of the values that made us, and to always be on the path towards compassion and love
If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for the future and come together with compassion to solve problems.
But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...
