#mixture

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#album #beatles #big #buy #cause

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#american way #continue #english #english school #i

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

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

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

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

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#east #everywhere #home #i #mixture

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? ↗

— Jose C. Orozco

#races #sprang #titans #two

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#indeed #make-believe #mixture #take #truth

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. ↗