Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Simone Elkeles

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 Weil

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.

Rem Koolhaas

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.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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

Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Robert Fulghum

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Tommy Lee

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.

Rick Riordan

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.

Robert Graves

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.

Rumi

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

V. S. Pritchett

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Franz Kafka

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.

Eric Clapton

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

Eminem

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jasper Fforde

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Hillary Clinton

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.

Herbert Croly

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Candice Swanepoel

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

James Dickey

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

Kirk Douglas

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.

Kelly Wearstler

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

Katherine Jenkins

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

Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

J. J. Abrams

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.

Ismail Merchant

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Jack Higgins

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

Penelope Lively

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.