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
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
Do ants get headaches?
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?