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• When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

  Fred Durst

  Different, Heavy, Aggressive

  "Fred Durst says Limp Bizkit are about bring on the Gravy" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.

  Cam Newton

  Trying, Dresses, Attention

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Romantic, Love You, Book

  Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix

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• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Piano, Used

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• When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.

  Robin Williams

  Ideas, Musician, New Ideas

  "Robin Williams on Improv, Acting, 'License'". Interview With Sandy Cohen, www.backstage.com. July 3, 2007.

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• A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Real, Men, Feelings

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.350, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves
  Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone:
  The greener juices are by toil subdued,
  Mellow'd, and subtilis'd; the vapid old
  Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

  John Armstrong

  Strong, Blood, Vapid

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• if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Age, Want, Yiddish

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Fall, Thinking

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• We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

  Joseph Lowery

  Men, Yellow, White

  Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nice, Mean, Guy

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Air, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Flow, Life Is

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.58, Penguin

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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Acceptance, Wind

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Time, Fall, Apples

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  Will Carleton

  Sweet, Fall, Autumn

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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• I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

  Al Yankovic

  Death, Suicide

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Smell

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• The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Thanksgiving, Pie, Spoons

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• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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• The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.

  Tal Farlow

  Music, Years, Sound

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

  Woody Hayes

  Thinking, Winner, Minutes

  "Hayes produced champions, controversy" by Alex Fineman, www.espn.com.

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• Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Sweet, Winter

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.153

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Summer, Spring, Sound

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