David Mitchell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
-
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
-
When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
-
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
-
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
-
I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
-
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
-
I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
-
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
-
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
-
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
-
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
-
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
-
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.
-
As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
-
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.
-
I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.
-
You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
