Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““One should be wary of touching one’s idols, for the gilt comes off on one’s fingertips.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Singular Touch. With that singular touch of his precious warm hand, His finger slowly skimmed her porcelain cheek. As her eyes fell upon his… — J.L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. Pen Is Envy,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I am a beautiful and intelligent woman. Anything I touch will turn to gold.” — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
“And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger: All beginning comes to an… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels like you… — Azra. T Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
