David Robert Mitchell Quotes

When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just have to see it.' I really didn't want to explain it because it's really tough to explain without it just sounding really ridiculous.

David Robert Mitchell

• People
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• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
  • Grammar

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Lawyer
  • Rule

• A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Himself

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Car
  • Start
  • Seeing

• When I give I give myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • Romantic
  • Give

• Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • People
  • Business
  • Death

• There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

  

  Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nature

• What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • People
  • Great
  • Picture

• All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • People
  • American
  • Community

• When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just have to see it.' I really didn't want to explain it because it's really tough to explain without it just sounding really ridiculous.

  

  David Robert Mitchell
  • People
  • Film
  • Tough