David Mitchell Quotes

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Animals
  • Instincts

• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Present
  • Strange
  • Reaction

• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
  • Today
  • Completion

• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Ability
  • Been

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Up
  • Age
  • Giving

• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Always

• How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Law
  • Broken

• In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Time
  • Mystery
  • Sorrow

• Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Enjoy
  • Acting
  • Go For It

• We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Friends

• I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

  

  John Grisham

• I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

  

  David Mitchell