Mellow Quotes

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

  Diane Keaton

  Ideas, Goal, Slow Down

  "Diane Keaton Talks Aging, Sex And Having Plastic Surgery" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

  Ville Valo

  Nice, Home, Rocks

  The eFestivals Interview, www.efestivals.co.uk. February 6, 2004.

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

  John Keats

  Fall, Autumn, Gourds

  "To Autumn" l. 1 (1820)

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

  John Keats

  Friendship, Summer, Running

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• Autumn's the mellow time.

  William Allingham

  Inspiring, Time, Autumn

  William Allingham (1883). “Evil May-day, &c”

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• You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Block, Focus, Tennis

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• Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

  Anne Hathaway

  Good Life, Stories, Good Story

  "Anne Hathaway Engaged to Adam Shulman!" by Justin Ravitz, www.usmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Martial

  Love, Confusion, Thee

  Martial, Andrew Amos (1858). “Martial and the Moderns, by Andrew Amos”, p.117

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Mean, Drug

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

  Shaun White

  Guy

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• I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

  Norah Jones

  Silly, Funny Things, Energy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Mirth, Graves

  'The Spectator' no. 68, 18 May 1711.

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• All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

  Marc Bolan

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Choices

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• I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

  Lauren Conrad

  Good Food

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• The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

  Kristen Wiig

  Wedding, Has Beens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
  Drops in a silent autumn night.
  All its allotted length of days
  The flower ripens in its place,
  Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
  Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Flower, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

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• I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

  Les Paul

  Sweet, Long, Sound

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• You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

  Woody Allen

  Maturity, Too Much

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• I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Stills, Over 50

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• You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

  Paul Walker

  Perspective, Guy, Easy

  "Complete WonderCon Roundtable Transcript". Interview With Rebecca Murray, Wayne Kramer, www.grouchoreviews.com.

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• I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

  Tom Verlaine

  Guitar

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