#mixture

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#flattery #judicious #mixture #threats

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

— Jeffrey Combs

#gravitated #i #instinct #mixture #naivete

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

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

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

#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. ↗

— John Masefield

#common sense #few #mixture #poetry #sense

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

#exempt #madness #mixture #soul

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. ↗

— Keren Ann

#atmospheres #fiction #i #mixture #moods

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#fully #mixture #modernity #need #order