W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

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

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.

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

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

We’'ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

Nature is a series of murders.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

I love you when I forget about me.

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.