John Mitchell Quotes
The significance works on several levels. The primary significance is based on my theory that Earth isn’t home to us and we are merely visitors. At the very least we are a hybrid species intent on being at odds with our surroundings. I personally feel a great disconnect with this planet. We belong elsewhere. We’re not home.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
-
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
-
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
-
We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
-
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
-
I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
-
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
-
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
-
Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
-
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
-
I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
-
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
-
There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
-
I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
-
I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
-
We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
-
Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine.
-
The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
-
Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.
-
The significance works on several levels. The primary significance is based on my theory that Earth isn’t home to us and we are merely visitors. At the very least we are a hybrid species intent on being at odds with our surroundings. I personally feel a great disconnect with this planet. We belong elsewhere. We’re not home.
