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Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. -- Anne Hathaway
Autumn's the mellow time. -- William Allingham
I'm into mellow dates with really good food. -- Lauren Conrad
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day. -- Alan Rickman
The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow. -- Kristen Wiig
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. -- Marc Bolan
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective. -- Paul Walker
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
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
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
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
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. -- Walter Scott
Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing -- Led Zeppelin
There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino. -- Edward Abbey
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
I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit"; songs that were written for her or songs that she wrote herself, like "Fine and Mellow" or "God Bless The Child." -- Jose James
Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy. -- Shaun White
You mellow too much you ripen and rot. -- Woody Allen
I am not old but mellow like good wine. -- Stephen Phillips
I'm a mellow guy, and I feel like my music is mellow. -- Matthew Morrison
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. -- John Keats
I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks. -- Tommy Lee
I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person. -- Dianna Agron
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. -- Jennifer Capriati
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. -- Gary Carter
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving. -- Billy Graham
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
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
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
I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out. -- Matthew McConaughey
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
I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow. -- Vanessa Brown
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
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
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
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
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. I aim to just look and feel confident. -- Cam Newton
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. -- Louis Tomlinson
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young. -- Maeve Binchy
I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good. -- Frank Black
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally. -- Priscilla Ahn
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing. -- Jello Biafra
Well, I'm completely normal and mellow. -- Florence Welch
I never liked mellow sounding guitar. -- Tom Verlaine
I'll be mellow when I'm dead. -- Al Yankovic
Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama. -- Ram Dass
if you don't want to get old, don't mellow. -- Linda Ellerbee
I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps. -- Annie Lennox
Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back. -- Judah Friedlander
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving." -- Sheryl Crow
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. -- Mitchell Burgess
The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner? -- Woody Hayes
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place. -- David Bowie
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. -- Boz Scaggs
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. -- John Townsend Trowbridge
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. -- Charles Simmons
"Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!" -- Kool DJ Herc
The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper. -- Herman Melville
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason. -- Jack Johnson
I get to do all these crazy things in the movies. I'm a pretty chilled out person, actually... a very mellow person. -- Kirsten Dunst
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.' -- Florence Welch
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
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it. -- Ty Segall
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon -- Vladimir Nabokov
Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires. -- Rupert Brooke
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
And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares... -- Robert Montgomery
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic. -- Dave Grohl
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
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration. -- Paul Brunton
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable. -- H. L. Mencken
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water. -- Bethany Hamilton
Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow. -- Taryn Manning
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
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar! -- Lord Byron
Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops . . ." I was what you call the buzz kill. -- Val Kilmer
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow. -- Cyril Connolly
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
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. -- Jerome K. Jerome
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
I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless. -- Juliette Binoche
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. -- Gail Sheehy
Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive. -- Jason Mewes
Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing. -- Brett Dennen

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