Famous quotes containing the word mixed:
“The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“What an antithetical mind!tenderness, roughnessdelicacy, coarsenesssentiment, sensualitysoaring and grovelling, dirt and deityall mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“A spasm band is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mixed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.”
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)