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Quotes About Medley

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
~ Dorothy Parker
I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My "useless gallimaufry," your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.
~ Karin Slaughter
Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.
~ Karin Slaughter
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
~ John Evelyn
There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.
~ Mary Hughes, Bite My Fire
gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
gallimaufry of colors—it was all a bit overwhelming.
~ Andrea Pickens
objects, including fans and vases and folding chairs and clothes.
~ Roberta Edwards
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
~ Dorothy Parker
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.
~ Dorothy Parker
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
~ James Laughlin
If I recollect, it's a mystic medley of mauves.
~ Ronald Firbank
AMBIGU  (A'MBIGU)   n.s.[French.]An entertainment, consisting not of regular courses, but of a medley of dishes set on together. When straiten'd in your time, and servants few,You'd richly then compose an ambigu;Where first and second course, and your desert,All in our single table have their part.King'sArt of Cookery.
~ Samuel Johnson
I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main events and extend my range to other freestyle and medley races.
~ Chad le Clos
In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
~ Mark Twain
I love mixing up my genres.
~ Rosanne Cash
Perhaps we are the most selfish, oddest, and cunningest medley of beings of our size in the universe. However to complete the scale of being, it seems to have been requisite that the link of being called man must have been, and since under the Divine government, we have a positive existence, we cannot ultimately fail of being better than not to have been.
~ Ethan Allen
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
~ Francis Parkman
Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycles.
~ Stefan Zweig
What a hotch-potch the world was!
~ Sylvia Plath
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.
~ Francis Bacon
Drukpa Kunley, the Master of Truth, himself said, 'If you think I have revealed any secrets, I apologize; If you think this a medley of nonsense, just enjoy it!' Such sentiments, here, I fully endorse!
~ Keith Dowman
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
~ Abigail Washburn
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
~ Elizabeth Janeway