Quotes About Contrast

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly." -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

You are too bright, my Camille, too beautiful for so much darkness. And yet, you would walk under the dark of the moon