David or Dave Mitchell may refer to:
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.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
Trees're always a relief, after people.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration.
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
. . . now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
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?
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides. . . I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. 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.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind. . . an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.