W Mitchell Quotes

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.

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

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

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

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

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

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.

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

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.

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

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

I hate dieting. Let’s just say that.

I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

In high school I was an outcast I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

For someone who wears makeup so much all the time, it's really important to take it off and give your skin some time to breath.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

I could be 80 tomorrow and I'd still be okay. It's all the way you think about things.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.