Elvis Mitchell Quotes

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

Elvis Mitchell

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
  • Kiss

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • School
  • Young
  • Teach

• If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • School
  • High
  • Simple

• I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Island

• 'The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.''The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.''They do.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Learning

• I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Jesus

• 'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Smart

• He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

  

  Jack Vance

• … I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Hearts

• You have to take a wheelbarrow full of money and roll out and try to make a movie out of it. But you run out of money eventually, and then it becomes painful and it becomes a struggle and time will kill the enthusiasm!

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

  

  Elvis Mitchell