W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.

I am a foodie. I'm not afraid to say it.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

Let light hearts remake us.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.

I will never forget that there are millions of other people who would be dying to be in my position. I’m not going to be an actress who doesn’t appreciate what she has.

Personally, I don't really have a set style or look. It's pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress and high heels to ripped jeans and army boots.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.