Quote

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

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
Disagreement
Clock
Worse
Clocks

More quotes by David Mitchell

Image
Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
David Mitchell
Image
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
David Mitchell
Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
David Mitchell
Image
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
David Mitchell
Image
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
David Mitchell
Image
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
David Mitchell
Image
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchell
Image
...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
David Mitchell
Image
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
David Mitchell
Image
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
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
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
David Mitchell
Image
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
David Mitchell
Image
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
David Mitchell
Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
David Mitchell
Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
David Mitchell
Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
David Mitchell
Image
Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
David Mitchell
Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
David Mitchell
Image
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
David Mitchell