Top 100 Mitchell Quotes
#1. I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required way, but something that is always opening up in front of us with the people me meet and the things we do, becoming more meaningful along the way.
Phil Mitchell
#3. We love our lovin' ... but not like we love our freedom.
Joni Mitchell
#4. The woman was sincere - bigots mostly are - but no less dangerous for that, and she shall be named and shamed.
David Mitchell
#5. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#6. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.
David Mitchell
#7. Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again
Elyne Mitchell
#8. Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever.
David Mitchell
#9. I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist ... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
Warren Mitchell
#10. 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.
Mitchell Baker
#11. At odd moments she may fret over a blank in her memory, but soon a Pied Piper thought will come dancing along and her untrained mind will follow ...
David Mitchell
#12. Bagpipes and electric guitars usually end in tears
David Mitchell
#13. If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
Margaret Mitchell
#14. It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
Jane Monheit
#15. The truth of a myth ... is not in its words but its patterns.
David Mitchell
#16. Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures.
David Mitchell
#18. A big fat zoo of snorers is snoring in all different rhythms
David Mitchell
#19. We've suffered a 'Ponzification' of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#20. I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.
Shay Mitchell
#21. For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha Mitchell
#22. I heard a miaow nearby and looked down to see a moon-grey cat melting out of the shadows.
David Mitchell
#23. Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
Barbara Mikulski
#24. White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Joni Mitchell
#25. Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
David Mitchell
#26. I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.
Jason Mitchell
#27. I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Ray Lamontagne
#28. He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.
Margaret Mitchell
#29. Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will be surprised at how far carrying that emotion will take you!
Tina Mitchell
#30. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.
David Mitchell
#31. When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
Bonnie Raitt
#32. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
David Mitchell
#33. Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
Richard Mitchell
#34. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#35. Yes, Detective Mitchell James Lawson was stubborn. More stubborn than me. Damn.
Kristen Ashley
#36. [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
Andrea Mitchell
#37. I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
Andrea Mitchell
#38. There are silver ships
There are gold ships,
But there are no ships
Like friendships.
W. Mitchell
#39. My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.
Ben Mitchell
#40. With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a more remunerative outlet for his legal knowledge. Inspired
David Mitchell
#41. Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, like me and Kona. But now I know that death can happen to anyone.
Jessica Mitchell
#42. the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean.' You
David Mitchell
#43. 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.
Richard Mitchell
#44. Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
David Mitchell
#45. The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved ... But don't worry girls, I hit him.
Ben Mitchell
#46. Good moods're as fragile as eggs ... Bad moods're as fragile as bricks.
David Mitchell
#47. I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear
Joni Mitchell
#48. Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
David Mitchell
#49. To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom
David Mitchell
#50. A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.
David Mitchell
#51. I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.
Jean Chretien
#52. When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
Joni Mitchell
#53. So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell
#55. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#57. Archivist: And what if no one believes this truth?
Sonmi~451: Someone already does.
David Mitchell
#58. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.
William Deresiewicz
#59. So who's expired in an ending flat and inane quite beyond belief now?
David Mitchell
#61. Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
David Mitchell
#62. I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Maria Mitchell
#63. I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
David Mitchell
#64. I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
Joni Mitchell
#65. I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.
David Mitchell
#67. Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think we'll make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
Margaret Mitchell
#68. That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.
David Mitchell
#70. Uncertain of uncertainty, skeptical of skepticism, it seems that the most important question is whether there is an important question.
Mitchell Heisman
#71. Me and Vinny are dead careful, and we only had sex once without a condom, our first time, and it's a scientific fact that virgins can't get pregnant. Stella told me.
David Mitchell
#72. Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?
Joni Mitchell
#73. A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.
David Mitchell
#74. If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.
Mitchell Kapor
#75. Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
Andrew Mitchell
#76. You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being.
David Mitchell
#77. He smiled, wondering if the owner would miss her handbag. What did she expect, leaving it in full view on the kitchen table last night?
Caroline Mitchell
#78. Hell is hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon.
David Mitchell
#79. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
David Mitchell
#80. An essential part of teaching
is to show how to enjoy learning.
Phil Mitchell
#81. Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
David Mitchell
#82. The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
Martin McGuinness
#83. From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
George J. Mitchell
#84. There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.
Mitchell Baker
#85. When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,
David Mitchell
#87. It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
Simon Kuznets
#88. We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#89. 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.
Radha Mitchell
#91. Friendships between races, Ewing, can never surpass the affection between a loyal gun-dog & its master.
David Mitchell
#92. It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Maria Mitchell
#93. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
#94. Was it enough to wear the night with me just once? I am unsatisfied.
Saundra Mitchell
#96. That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
Margaret Mitchell
#97. People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
David Mitchell
#98. One Macaca fuscata is cleverer than two Homines sapientes
David Mitchell
#99. Can you do it today? The notion of just trying to take each day as it came. The commitment to the present moment, and only the present moment, without worrying about the big and daunting picture of all the days that followed.
Andie Mitchell
#100. Do forgive me ... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter.
Saundra Mitchell
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