Mrs Mitty Quotes & Sayings

NOTE: For those who enjoy listening to music while they read, a soundtrack has been placed at the back of the book. So if - like the author - you believe that music and reading go together like peanut butter and chocolate, then you may want to skip to the back and start the music before you begin reading. Enjoy! — Mitty Walters

Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it. — James Thurber

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison

I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean. — James Caan

Don't ask, don't tell. Keep your head down. Don't lie - just keep them talking about themselves and pretty soon they'll see their reflection. It's easy to be liked that way: people love themselves. — Mitty Walters

It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't? — James Thurber

Jessica shook her head violently. "This isn't real! This is a floating skateboard. You did not just solve the world's energy crisis. All this is, is a really neat toy." Okay, — Mitty Walters

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character. — Tom Hardy

We rode in silence. Outkast's Spaghetti Junction played in the background as we hit I-85, southbound toward town. Jessica — Mitty Walters

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God. — Erwin W. Lutzer

This violence is attributed in no small part to the gangs that prey on illegals who don't use banks. Pockets stuffed with cashed paychecks make inviting targets on a Friday night. Though — Mitty Walters

I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West. — Owen Wilson

There wasn't enough room to leap, but I knew just by the watching how he danced from one foot to the next, he'd leap like a deer.
The most amazing thing was the lack of tics. They were just gone, leaving behind a gorgeous man who would never be normal. Not because of the autism, but because he was too extraordinary. — Adrienne Wilder

Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas ...
Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another. — William Gibson

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now. — Bo Derek

This presentation was truly a testament to the epic magnitude of getting into Thomas Treadwell's class. This exercise was pointedly not some theoretical simulation dreamed up by an academic with no real-world experience. We were presenting our ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors. — Mitty Walters

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. — Hall Caine

I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films. — Garth Nix

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. — Robert Dallek

He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources. — Diana Gabaldon

Ah, Master Bates," I said with deep thought. "Why yes, I think I will speak to him." "I — Mitty Walters

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too. — Gabrielle Zevin

Birds prefer trees with dead branches,' said Caravaggio. 'They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction. — Michael Ondaatje

I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, going about his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with respect. Did his failures in life lead him to seek solace in daydreams or did his wandering mind stand in the way of his potential success? One must have triggered the other, and then it would have been both working together. An empty life drives you to fantasies of fulfilment, which then form a deadly, vicious circle which can turn you into a cartoon, as it did poor Mitty. Or lead you to ruin like Madame Bovary. — Indu Muralidharan

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. — Jonathan Winters

Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. — James Thurber

Sadie and Bes laughed like crazy. Me, I was too busy yelling, "Crevice! Look out! Flaming geyser! Go left!" Call me practical. I wanted to live. I grabbed Zia's hand and tried to hang on. — Rick Riordan

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture! — Galileo Galilei

Orange is the New Black is a really boring porn. — Mitty Walters

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart ... Delve into yourself for a deep answer — Rainer Maria Rilke

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose. — Idries Shah

Oh, for crying out loud, it's because you're so uptight and self-righteous. Somebody said your ass was probably as watertight as a frog, and next thing you know they were calling you Kermit. — Mitty Walters

I intend to see that justice is done by presiding, in the manner of the omnipotent Walter Mitty, as chief justice of a tribunal trying the case of those plotting further advances for the Chinese characters on an international scale. Emulating the operatic Mikado's "object all sublime... to let the punishment fit the crime," I hand down the following dread decree:

Anyone who believes Chinese characters to be a superior system of writing that can function as a universal script is condemned to complete the task of rendering the whole of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Singlish.
— John DeFrancis

What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul. — Lang Leav

Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer. — Aza Raskin