Quotes About Mixtures

#1. 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

#2. I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

Kirk Douglas

#3. I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Sune Rose Wagner

#4. Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. 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

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

Ronald Breslow

#7. I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Lawrence Durrell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

Jack Higgins

#10. Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

Alexander Lowen

#11. No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call temperament.

Stephen Jay Gould

#12. 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

#13. You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

Eminem

#14. 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.

Paul Johnson

#15. If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#16. In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

Frederick Lenz

#17. 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

#18. [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

#19. Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

Heraclitus

#20. The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi.

Osvaldo Ardiles

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one of those people who hears the sun come up.

Robert Stone

#24. 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.

Sakyong Mipham

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

Frederick Lenz

#26. Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Wolfgang Ketterle

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

David Biespiel

#29. I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#30. Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Emile M. Cioran

#31. 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

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

Dan Simmons

#33. 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

#34. 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.

Annie Dillard

#35. Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

Ali Mazrui

#36. 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

#37. Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark,white patches
and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday.

Seyi Ayoola

#38. You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

Rumi

#39. While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#40. My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Billy Wilder

#41. As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

Tone Bell

#42. Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

#43. 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

#44. 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.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#45. I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Albert Einstein

#46. Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#47. In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!

Manohla Dargis

#48. The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

Franz Kafka

#49. 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

#50. My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Stephen Fry

#51. 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

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

John Milton

#53. 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

#54. 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.

Jane Levy

#55. It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

Keren Ann

#56. Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is ... For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

Hillary Clinton

#57. 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

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

Lydia Sigourney

#59. Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

Sharon Stone

#60. The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Gertrude Atherton

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

Austin O'Malley

#63. No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Edward Victor Appleton

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

Charles Lindbergh

#65. 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.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Laurence Sterne

#67. Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

Bonnie Bassler

#68. As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

Viola Davis

#69. Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair.

Suzanne Somers

#70. The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Lord Byron

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

Edwin Catmull

#73. 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

#74. Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V.S. Pritchett

#75. Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

Olivia Wilde

#76. Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

Dalai Lama

#77. 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.

Danny Boyle

#78. Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#79. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

Sivananda

#80. 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

#81. A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Simone Weil

#82. Here there is left a tenuous subterfuge, 875 which Anaxagoras seizes: think of things as mixtures of everything, all concealed but one that shows - the one that's mixed in largest measure and close to the surface and placed right at the top.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#83. Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.

Peace Pilgrim

#84. Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

Patricia Briggs

#85. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Gottfried Leibniz

#86. 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