John Mitchell Quotes

#1. I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

John F. Kerry

#2. Tommy Gnosis: What is that?
Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with.

John Cameron Mitchell

#3. I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.

Guillermo Diaz

#4. My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch!

John Cameron Mitchell

#5. So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

Luke Watson

#6. There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

John Cameron Mitchell

#7. How in the ever loving fuck am I severely hung over and turned on at the same time? I didn't think that was possible.

Kristen Proby

#8. It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster?

John Cameron Mitchell

#9. There is a genius in my head. I'm hoping to meet him one day

John Mitchell

#10. Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

John Paul DeJoria

#11. People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

Jennifer Ehle

#12. Courtesy is the universal social lubricant.

Miranda Davis

#13. The insanely gorgeous competition documentary on surfing obsession, Step Into Liquid - directed by Dana Brown and photographed by John-Paul Beeghly in hypnotic gradations of aquamarine - will send you into a dream state.

Elvis Mitchell

#14. You ... can ride a bike, can't you?"
"Sure I can," I said, getting onto one of the squeaky things. "At least I used to be able to. Haven't done it in years, but it's like riding a bike, right?"
"Technically, yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

David Mitchell

#16. She looked him directly in the eye. A colleague of hers had once told her that eye contact with another person for more than six seconds without looking away or blinking revealed a desire for either sex or murder.

Lisa Genova

#17. I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.

John Paul DeJoria

#18. When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

Raekwon

#19. Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

John N. Mitchell

#20. I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship ... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

Azim Premji

#21. 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.

John N. Mitchell

#22. I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.

John Cameron Mitchell

#23. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

W. Edwards Deming

#24. 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.

John Cameron Mitchell

#25. If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces.

John Cameron Mitchell

#26. A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.

David Mitchell

#27. I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".

John Cameron Mitchell

#28. Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Vittorio Alfieri

#29. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

John N. Mitchell

#31. 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.

John N. Mitchell

#32. You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

John N. Mitchell

#33. Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no way relieving us of the responsibity to understand and improve ourselves.

Peter R. Breggin

#34. The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

John Cameron Mitchell

#35. So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

Dennis Bergkamp

#36. Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.
Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.
Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.

John Duncan

#37. Let us be tried by our actions.

John N. Mitchell

#38. I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

John Cameron Mitchell

#39. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

Nikhil Banerjee

#40. When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#41. The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.

David Mitchell

#42. A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#43. We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

Chief Dan George

#44. Eve just wanted to know shit.

John Cameron Mitchell