Jarita Mitchell Quotes

Frank White, who literally wrote the book on the overview effect, is also part of the Overview Institute. And he thinks of space travel largely as Mitchell does - an evolutionary step. "If fish could think at our level of intelligence," White said, "back before humanity existed, and some fish were starting to venture up on land, a lot of them would be saying, just as we do now about space: 'Why would we want to go there? What's the point?' And they'd have literally no idea of what venturing onto land was going to mean". ~ Steve Volk

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. ~ David Mitchell

A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction ~ Joni Mitchell

As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations. ~ Kim Mitchell

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral. ~ Joni Mitchell

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. ~ Richard Mitchell

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do. ~ George J. Mitchell

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie. ~ Kel Mitchell

I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it. ~ John Paul DeJoria

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again. ~ David Mitchell

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins. ~ David Mitchell

They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary. ~ Stephen Mitchell

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ~ Adrian Mitchell

A dragonfly settles on a bulrush an inch from my nose. Its wings are like cellophane and Jonah says, "Its wings are like cellophane," and I say, "I was just thinking that," but Jonah says, "Just thinking what?" so maybe I just thought he'd said it. Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles. I've noticed it before. ~ David Mitchell

BY THE END OF MY JUNIOR YEAR, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WERE MAKING their way into the news. The first one I heard about was in 1997, when Luke Woodham killed two students and wounded seven others in Pearl, Mississippi. Two months later, in West Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal killed three students at a high school prayer service. In March of 1998, Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden of Jonesboro, Arkansas - one aged thirteen, the other eleven - set off a fire alarm to make their fellow students run outside, then opened fire from the trees. They killed four students and a teacher. Finally, Kip Kinkel went on a rampage in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998. He murdered both of his parents at home, then went to school, killed two students, and wounded twenty-two others. ~ Brooks Brown

When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart. ~ Mitchell Hurwitz

Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy. ~ Mitchell Hurwitz

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

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did. ~ George J. Mitchell

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. ~ David Mitchell

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation. ~ Jason Mitchell

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are. ~ Penelope Mitchell

Dogs are the best people! ~ Marianne Mitchell

Do forgive me ... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter. ~ Saundra Mitchell

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live. ~ Elizabeth Mitchell

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him. ~ Caroline Mitchell

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film. ~ David Robert Mitchell

Control is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal. ~ David Mitchell

Sex sells everything and sex kills. ~ Joni Mitchell

So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes. ~ David Mitchell

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality ... He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I let ya in - into my life ... my death ... my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out. ~ Janae Mitchell

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. ~ Joni Mitchell

You ask a starved man," Gerritszoon says, "to drink to a glutton. ~ David Mitchell

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him. ~ Mitchell Reiss

At two o'clock in the afternoon it was time to go. As the passengers lined up outside the Gremlin Special, Prossen told them to expect the tour to last three hours. ~ Mitchell Zuckoff

The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake. ~ David Mitchell

I can write pretty much anywhere. ~ David Mitchell

For She's a Squishy Marshmallow ~ David Mitchell

The tragedy of life, Mitchell, happens because you can never have everything and because you will even lose the graces you have once possessed. ~ Noha Alaa El-Din

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. ~ Joni Mitchell

My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to ask what rhymes with what: - "Streams of blood"? "Themes of mud"? "Robin Hood"? ~ David Mitchell