David Mitchell
David Mitchell
English stand up comedian and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. He is best known for starring in and writing the Channel 4 series Peep Show, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. He has also written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and, That Mitchell and Webb Look.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 July 1974
CitySalisbury, England
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
Trees're always a relief, after people.