Mixed Up Sayings

#1. Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#2. Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.

Martin Luther

#3. I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

Pope Francis

#4. As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up ... We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

Billy Graham

#5. I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn't just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can.

Shane Carruth

#6. A mixed up knot of incompatible roles, tied up too tight to know where one ended and another began.

Genevieve Dewey

#7. Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

Barack Obama

#9. These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Van Morrison

#10. Sex to a woman can be like a bad emotion or imbalanced hormones, if you can't get a handle on it, it'll have you walking around mixed up and messed up, happy one moment and inthe next plotting to kill somebody
value ypur goodies and know who you giving them to.

Jacqueline Ewing

#11. ......like it or not, there'll be some bad apples out there, and sometimes you might find yourself mixed up with one of them. That's not your fault.

Nico Jaye

#12. Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

A.A. Milne

#13. When London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth

Virginia Woolf

#14. That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

#15. Isaiah pauses. "It's Beth. If she knew what her mom is mixed up in, she'd try to fix it, and then she'd end up in trouble that I couldn't fix."
This is the kind of guy Isaiah is: loyal to the end and a fixer. Even if the person he loves doesn't want to be helped.

Katie McGarry

#16. Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Vera Farmiga

#17. Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

Quentin Crisp

#18. Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.

Trinny Woodall

#19. The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

Tobias Smollett

#20. My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

Dana Gould

#21. When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#22. You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

Ingrid Law

#23. Looks like the good Lord got your ass and face mixed up.

John Marston

#24. You try to live straight in this crazy, crooked, mixed-up world - that's what's funny. You know what I mean?"
"I do, I do," I said.
"You don't even have to do anything especially funny. You just act normal. That alone looks strange and funny. Acting like that interests me.

Haruki Murakami

#25. But porca miseria, the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more like everything all mixed up.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#26. I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.

Gavin DeGraw

#27. You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Sam Rayburn

#28. Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

Anne Lamott

#29. We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn't that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it's a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it's all mixed up together, it's us: humanness.

Pema Chodron

#30. My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

Dichen Lachman

#31. I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

Randall Jarrell

#32. If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it's accessible to everybody, and don't get simple mixed up with simplistic, it's how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.

Gordon Willis

#33. Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

Gordon Willis

#34. In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

P.G. Wodehouse

#35. Our relation, all round, exists
it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it

Henry James

#36. How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.

Billy Graham

#37. I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Bob Dylan

#38. A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.

Jonathan Lethem

#39. In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

Billy Graham

#40. I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

Imogen Poots

#41. Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

Michel De Montaigne

#42. My mind was a jumble, a mixed-up mess of hurt and want, but I didn't know how to sort out the crazy rush of thoughts, and frankly, I didn't want to. I was burning for him, so I let my body lead me on.

Lauren Blakely

#43. You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.

Megan Crewe

#44. Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

Sarah Louise Delany

#45. One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

#46. I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#47. She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.

James McBride

#48. I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

Rick Riordan

#49. A professional sex therapist." Gabe moved out into the hall. "Guess I should show some respect. They do say it's the oldest profession. No, wait, maybe I've got that mixed up with another line of work.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#50. I'm in love. Twice. It's not a love that divides fifty-fifty. It's not a love that's split between good and bad, safe and dangerous, real and imaginary. It's all mixed up, confused, good, bad and ugly love times two, and it's all mine.

Liz Reinhardt

#51. Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Jerry Spinelli

#52. You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

George Orwell

#53. JACK KIRBY is also the central personage of this novel because this is not a good novel. This is a seriously mixed-up book with a central personage who never appears. The plot, like life, resolves into nothing and features emotional suffering without meaning.

Jarett Kobek

#54. Oh, storms. That was awful."
"No it was funny. You seem to get those two mixed up a lot. Don't worry. I'm here to help.

Brandon Sanderson

#55. The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

Pema Chodron

#56. The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists."
"That could have happened to anyone!

Lisa Kleypas

#57. He hadn't got Minni mixed up in his troubles; she was trouble enough on her own.

Benjamin Descovich

#58. I was half expecting it, but it still came as kind of a shock when the barrier stayed down. It's funny how some things can be so mixed up like that.

Gavin Extence

#59. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

Vicente Fox

#60. A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.

D.H. Lawrence

#61. Some people get adoration mixed up with love, and [Juliet] was one of them.

Deb Caletti

#62. I've never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

Myles Kennedy

#63. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while

Elizabeth Atkinson

#64. Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.

Zaeema J. Hussain

#65. I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.

Ken Follett

#66. There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

George Horace Lorimer

#67. Maybe it was more about finding who I was in relation to the Simulacrum-to the blood inside of me- and less about finding myself in relation to who I wanted to be. Maybe I had gotten those two things mixed up along the way

Julia J. Gibbs

#68. Brothers you can't get rid of. They get who you are, and what you like, and they don't care who you sleep with or what mistakes you make, because brothers aren't mixed up in that part of your life. They see you at your worst, and they don't care.

Becky Chambers

#69. In one night, I went from a man in complete control over everything in my life to a mixed-up mess, falling for a chick way more fucked up than I ever could have imagined. Falling for her? Fuck, try already fallen, jackass.

Willow Madison

#70. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#71. In the morning I brush my teeth with hope, and at night before bed I brush them with defeat. Both are mint flavored, so I try not to get them mixed up.

Jarod Kintz

#72. Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#73. Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#74. What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.

Kenneth Patchen

#75. I brought children into this lousy, mixed-up world because when you love someone and they love you back, the world doesn't look that lousy or seem that mixed up.

Erma Bombeck

#76. It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Asghar Farhadi

#77. I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.

Fernando Pessoa

#78. It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?

Agatha Christie

#79. Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Walter Scott

#80. It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.

Ruth Harris

#81. Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Evelyn Waugh

#82. In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.

Rosita Forbes

#83. I'm all mixed up inside. It's like - I don't know - like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I'm fine, and the next I'm losing it.

Catherine Anderson

#84. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Jasper Fforde

#85. I see less and less ... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up ... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Claude Monet

#86. Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

Gunter Grass

#87. I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

Linus Torvalds

#88. Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.

Virginia Woolf

#89. Be like sugarcane sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words

Rumi

#90. In your usual state of consciousness, there is a separate quale experience of everything you observe. But when you transcend into the domain of absolute divinity, all your qualia get mixed up.

Abhijit Naskar

#91. They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter."
Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird."
Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#92. Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.

Sergio Aragones

#93. In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Julia Child

#94. We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..
We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..
Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a different reality.

M. Cochet M.

#95. I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

Richard Rodgers

#96. 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

S.E. Hinton

#97. If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

P.G. Wodehouse

#98. The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Max Beerbohm

#99. They just hate it when people make love. And then they'll go to a fistfight where somebody's really hurt and all covered with bloodand they'll just love that. Or a war and stuff like that. They're all mixed up and they're trying to take it out on you so you get mixed up too.

Robert M. Pirsig

#100. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

Gary Keller