Mixtures famous quotes
04-01-2025
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
-- Adam Savage -
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
-- Alice Eve -
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.
-- Annie Besant -
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.
-- Antony Flew -
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
-- Antony Sher -
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
-- Arthur Helps -
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.
-- Bela Fleck -
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
-- Billy Wilder -
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
-- Bob Herbert -
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict
-- Bridget Riley -
We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
-- Bryan Sykes -
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
-- Candice Swanepoel -
I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
-- Charles Lamb -
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
-- Dan Simmons -
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
-- David Biespiel -
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...
-- David Sheff -
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
-- Davy Jones -
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.
-- Diane Arbus -
Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.
-- Dianna Agron -
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
-- Edward Victor Appleton -
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.
-- Eminem -
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?
-- Gavin Extence -
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
-- Harold Innis -
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes -
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
-- Herbert Croly -
I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
-- Hugh Jackman -
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
-- Hugh Prather -
The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
-- Ismail Merchant -
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
-- J. J. Abrams -
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.
-- Jacques Derrida -
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
-- James Dickey -
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.
-- James Elkins -
The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.
-- James Hilton -
What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
-- Jean Rhys -
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
-- Jeffrey Combs -
I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
-- Joe Perry -
Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.
-- John Banville -
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
-- John Masefield -
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
-- Jose Clemente Orozco -
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.
-- Judith Martin -
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
-- Julie Burchill -
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
-- Katherine Jenkins -
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history
-- Manuel De Landa -
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
A lot of these young girls, they dont even know what the game is about. They have never seen a drop shot, a slice and all the mixture and variety I have.
-- Martina Hingis -
Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
-- Michael Shanks -
I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
-- Mira Grant -
[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.
-- Morley Safer -
A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).
-- Nancy Lancaster -
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
-- Northrop Frye -
The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.
-- Osvaldo Ardiles -
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
-- Otto Wallach -
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
-- Penelope Lively -
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
-- Phil Keoghan -
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
-- Robert Fulghum -
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
-- Robert Graves -
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
-- Rumi -
Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.
-- Simone Elkeles -
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
-- Sophia Loren -
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
-- Stephen Fry -
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
-- Stephen Sprouse -
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
-- Theodore Bikel -
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.
-- Tommy Lee -
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
-- Walter Becker -
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.
-- William C. Brown -
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
-- Austin O'Malley -
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.
-- Catherine Camus -
The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.
-- Kelly Wearstler -
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
-- Laurie Foos -
The U.S. has always been a contradiction. It's always been a deeply protectionist, institutional place, where you're not allowed to smoke, and you're not allowed to do this, and you're not allowed to do that. And then, on the other hand, it's completely libertarian in a way. So it's got this weird mixture of being incredibly authoritarian and incredibly open at the same time.
-- Liam Gillick -
I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.
-- Sune Rose Wagner -
We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.
-- Brooklyn Sudano -
I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
-- Arturo Sandoval -
To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.
-- Richard A. Falk -
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
-- Edwin Catmull -
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.
-- Ronald Breslow -
Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
-- Sharon Stone -
Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.
-- Stelios Haji-Ioannou -
Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.
-- Jack Higgins -
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
-- John Howard -
The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.
-- Mahathir Mohamad
