Quote

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

David Mitchell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Still
Wins
Whoever
Damage
Standing
Pay
Winning
War
Auction
Stills
Auctions

More quotes by David Mitchell

Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
David Mitchell
Image
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
Image
Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
David Mitchell
Image
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
David Mitchell
Image
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
David Mitchell
Image
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
David Mitchell
Image
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
David Mitchell
Image
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
David Mitchell
Image
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
David Mitchell
Image
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
David Mitchell
Image
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
David Mitchell
Image
Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
David Mitchell
Image
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
David Mitchell
Image
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
David Mitchell
Image
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
David Mitchell
Image
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
David Mitchell
Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
David Mitchell
Image
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
David Mitchell
Image
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
David Mitchell
Image
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
David Mitchell