Beca Mitchell Quotes

Photos're better than nothing, but things're better than photos 'cause the things themselves were part of what was there. ~ David Mitchell

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I think we think in terms of stories. ~ David Mitchell

No trial comes without a blessing attached.

Bloom where you are planted. ~ Wanda Mitchell

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. ~ David Mitchell

Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun'll be worth any number of university degrees. ~ David Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. ~ Joni Mitchell

only dead 'cause of Ian or Esther Little ~ David Mitchell

The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog's head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocket watch by a margin of hours. Indeed, one valued import from New Zealand is the accurate time). ~ David Mitchell

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. ~ Maria Mitchell

The eel's pause gave Kim far too long to weigh how incredibly stupid this impulse was
as if the tattoo covering his wrist weren't reminder enough of how irrevocable some rash ideas could be. ~ K.A. Mitchell

It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a lot. And didn't all this thinking and looking involve their breasts and lips and legs? Female human beings were objects of the most intense interest and scrutiny on Mitchell's part. And yet he didn't think that a word like objectification covered the way these alluring - but intelligent! - creatures made him feel. What Mitchell felt when he saw a beautiful girl was more like something from a Greek myth, like being transformed, by the sight of beauty, into a tree, rooted on the spot, forever, out of pure desire. You couldn't feel about an object the way Mitchell felt about girls. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity. ~ David Mitchell

Time is the speed at which the past decays. ~ David Mitchell

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet. ~ Mitchell Baker

Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away. ~ David Mitchell

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings. ~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to rot on his stool. The single round light is dappled with the bodies of dead insects, and the walls are decorated with spatters and dribbles of grease. ~ David Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, constantly in the darkness,
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar. ~ Joni Mitchell

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like ... That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid. ~ Ben Mitchell

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed. ~ Shay Mitchell

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up. ~ Glen Hansard

What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers! ~ David Mitchell

Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing. ~ David Mitchell

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television. ~ Beverley Mitchell

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting. ~ David Mitchell

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do. ~ Shay Mitchell

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT! ~ Mitchell Kapor

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky ~ Elyne Mitchell

During times like these, the wise are influential. ~ Joni Mitchell

While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myth with loves, births, deaths; hunts, battles, journeys; droughts, fires, storms; and names of every host within whose body Moombaki had sojourned. ~ David Mitchell

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call. ~ Pat Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. -Rhett Butler ~ Margaret Mitchell

If you love and are loved, whatever you do affects others. ~ David Mitchell

Come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely ... ~ David Mitchell

Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live. ~ Stephen Mitchell

I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns. ~ David Mitchell

Like all belongers, [they] don't notice how easily they slip into groups, lines, ranks, gangs, but we nonbelongers we know what we are alright. ~ David Mitchell

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice. ~ Elizabeth Mitchell

Let me put it in a rather larger picture framework. Let's go to the longest time frame, the time frame of the life of our sun. As a star, our sun is about halfway through its life cycle. In the long run, we only have a couple of billion more years likely that we can inhabit this planet. By that time, we're going to have to be out of here before our sun dies. Now, I don't think we need to wait that long, and we certainly shouldn't wait that long. At the moment, we are not on a sustainable path. ~ Edgar Mitchell

I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean. ~ Shay Mitchell

It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly. ~ Margaret Mitchell