Quote

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

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
Learn
Nothing
Real
Proposed
Losers
Winners
Loser
Winner

More quotes by David Mitchell

Image
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
David Mitchell
Image
. . .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
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
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
David Mitchell
Image
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
David Mitchell
Image
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
David Mitchell
Image
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
David Mitchell
Image
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
David Mitchell
Image
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
David Mitchell
Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
David Mitchell
Image
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
David Mitchell
Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
David Mitchell
Image
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
Image
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
David Mitchell
Image
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it
David Mitchell
Image
Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
David Mitchell