Donald G. Mitchell Quotes

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

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• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Perspective

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Talk

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Work
  • School
  • Team

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• It's very special having a new little girl.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Girl
  • New
  • Special

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Hockey

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Popular
  • Author

• There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Think
  • Top

• Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Real

• Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Food

• I would love to start a cancer organization.

  

  Jason Derulo
  • Organization
  • Cancer

• Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.

  

  Johnny Isakson
  • Real
  • Growth
  • Service

• No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

  

  Donald G. Mitchell
  • Food
  • Brain