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 learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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.
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.