W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

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

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

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

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Whatever it is, I give it my all. You have to do everything you want in this one life that you have.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.

If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.