Mixtures Quotes

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

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.

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.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

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.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

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.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

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.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

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.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

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.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

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.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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.

I like doing both comedy and drama. I'm not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

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.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

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.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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.

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

Yeah, I know you. I made you up. This is my dream. You're a mixture of Zac Efron and Johnny Depp.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.

For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.