Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Hours
Sharks
Free
Loan
Good
Prices
Love
Works
Pay
Pure
Joy
Goes
Shark
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
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
David Mitchell
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
David Mitchell
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
David Mitchell
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
David Mitchell
The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
David Mitchell
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
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
David Mitchell
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
David Mitchell
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
David Mitchell
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
David Mitchell
Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
David Mitchell
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
David Mitchell
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
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
David Mitchell
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
David Mitchell
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
David Mitchell
There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
David Mitchell
