David Mitchell Quotes
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
-
I would love to be a role model.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
-
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
-
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
-
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
-
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
-
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
-
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
-
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
-
And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
-
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
-
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
-
Enjoy every sandwich.
-
Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
-
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
-
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
-
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, 'The future of computer power is pure simplicity.'
-
I've seen the needle and the damage done.A little part of it in everyone.But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
-
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
