W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

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.

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.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

It's the bully who is insecure.

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

The arctic loneliness of age.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.