Quote

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

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
Single
Owned
Days
Unpredictable
Night
Nights
Dream
Factor
Ever
Factors
Truly
Dreams
Nobody
Censors

More quotes by David Mitchell

Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
David Mitchell
Image
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
David Mitchell
Image
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
David Mitchell
Image
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
David Mitchell
Image
Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
David Mitchell
Image
Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
David Mitchell
Image
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
David Mitchell
Image
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
David Mitchell
Image
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
David Mitchell
Image
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
David Mitchell
Image
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
David Mitchell
Image
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
Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
David Mitchell
Image
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
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
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
David Mitchell
Image
The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
David Mitchell
Image
Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
David Mitchell