Mix Quotes

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. (John Travolta)
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. View quote
Sigmund Freud
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. View quote
Albert Finney
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders. View quote
John Updike
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. View quote
Penelope Lively
In addition, a century or more of efforts to arrive at a feasible and politically acceptable mix of market and nonmarket elements has not produced a definitive, stable, or uniform solution. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. (Christopher McDougall)
I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. View quote
Anna Sui
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. View quote
John Updike
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types. View quote
Umberto Eco
I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship. View quote
George Soros
I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out. View quote
George Eliot
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. View quote
O. Henry
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
Don't mix wine and women, Doro. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity. (Gene Simmons)
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me. View quote
William Wilberforce
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
"... But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle. View quote
David Gemmell