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
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
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.
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.