A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
Bridget Riley

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.
Harold MacMillan

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Janet Frame

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore

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.
Herbert Croly

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
Adam Savage

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
Jeffrey Combs

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
Bill Griffith

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Faith Ringgold

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

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Walter Becker

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
Stephen Sprouse

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.
Tom Araya

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.
Penelope Lively