Chris Mitchell > Chris's Quotes

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
― Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 1648;: [and, His noble numbers]

“Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.”
― Rob Bell

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Looking through his fingers he saw Nero standing still, pale and shaking. “Husband?” Nero silently pointed to the door. Sporus stuck his head into the corridor, looking one way and then the next. He was going to turn back and ask Nero what had frightened him so, when he spotted what it was. Or rather what it wasn't. There were no Praetorian guards. Not one.”
― L.J. Trafford, Palatine

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“it's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
― William Wordsworth

“To begin, begin.”
― William Wordsworth

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
― John Wayne

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
― John Wayne

“Courage is being completely paralyzed with fear and taking the first step anyway. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“The warrior does not need a crowd; they need a tribe.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Way of the Warrior: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace

“If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”
― Woodrow Wilson