Mitchell > Mitchell's Quotes

“one day he will wake up, look into the mirror, find himself and wish he hadn’t.”
― J.D. Gallagher, The Anunnaki Years

“the curve of his belly, which reminded me of a sail full of wind.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., Stained Glass

“But I found myself wondering if, by whistling about whistling while you work while you were actually working, you would cause some odd bit of the universe, in some unknown dimension, to fold in upon itself—rather like a Klein bottle, which has no inside or outside—causing you to disappear up your own posterior in a cloud of probably invisible orange smoke.”
― Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead

“Humility is a most excellent barometer,” he said, “and ought to be looked for in all those we are made to look up to.”
― Alan Bradley, The Golden Tresses of the Dead

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
― William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“was going to say something dazzlingly amusing and erudite in reply, but I couldn’t think of anything,”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking