W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.
Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.
Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out.
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.