Tom Mix Quotes

#1. I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

George Sidney

#2. Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Mary Astor

#3. My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

Bob Dylan

#4. Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

Tom Robbins

#5. I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

Isla Fisher

#6. Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

Lynn Coady

#7. When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.

Shepard Fairey

#8. Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

Tom Mix

#10. You can still fight when someone can't talk.

Nicole Kidman

#11. In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. I don't want you to think I don't love my extended family. I do. I just don't want to be around them. Some of this is because I'm a loner. Some of this is because at family gatherings you are forced to face the short genetic distance between you and a clinically insane person.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. The most successful people start with dominant talent - and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

#14. But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the winter breeze
A hundred miles away.

Robert Frost

#15. I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

Tom Brokaw

#16. At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude. I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.

Mary Shelley

#17. One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Tom Stoppard

#18. University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.

Tom Riley

#19. I was a very confident little kid.

Tina Fey

#20. I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. Such a young trial!

Franz Kafka

#22. My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy.

Tom Douglas

#23. Today I will remember the world owes me nothing, does not respond to my will,
and goes merrily on with or without my consent.
On the other hand,
I am free to change myself as I see fit.

Ken Montrose

#24. What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Tom Riley