Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
David Mitchell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Text Writer
Translator
Writer
Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
Would
Decades
People
Function
Mass
Becoming
Longer
Obscenities
Rather
Squeezing
Around
Obscenity
Music
Tubes
More quotes by David Mitchell
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
David Mitchell
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
David Mitchell
I think we think in terms of stories.
David Mitchell
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
David Mitchell
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
David Mitchell
Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
David Mitchell
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
David Mitchell
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
David Mitchell
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
David Mitchell
Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
David Mitchell
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
David Mitchell
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
David Mitchell
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
David Mitchell
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
David Mitchell
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
David Mitchell
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
David Mitchell
Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
David Mitchell
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
David Mitchell
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
David Mitchell
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
David Mitchell