Quotes About Contrast

an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.

Oh God, Leon's laugh. So dark and wild you could drown a bag of kittens in it.

Leslie's leathers and dirty hair would be chic in a biker bar but in the glittery galleria she looked as seemly as a dead toenail in a pair of strappy sandals.

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.

What you seem to like in my drawings is how they reveal the dark underside, or whatever it's called, of people you wouldn't think were particularly screwed up. But you should know the real goal of my work is a Dorian Gray type of thing. I make you look awful, and I start to look really good….

Since this final vision discloses Christ's pure and peaceful bride in contrast to the beast's vile and violent harlot, the two women are introduced with words so similar that the parallel cannot be missed:

There's something ugly about the flawless.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Minstrel music was party music, vigorous and sexy in contrast to the prissy bourgeois music of the era. That is why it succeeded.

When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here?

Life can be compared to a Rainbow that requires both the Sun and the Rain in order to create its Bright and Beautiful Colors.

I think zombies are kind of cute." "Seriously?" "I may be thinking about bunnies. Which one has the fluffy little tail, zombies or bunnies?" "Bunnies." "Then it's bunnies I'm thinking of.

He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.

Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.' 'I'll get you a stick for Christmas

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.