W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!
A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.
Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.
Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.
There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.
Never will I understand the mentallity of a man, who can plant his own seed and not watch it grow.
However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!
Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
A broken heart doesn't need repaired. Because maybe one of your pieces fits perfectly with someone else's heart.
Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.
Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.
Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.
He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.
Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.
Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.
For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'
Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.
It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.