Quotes About Contrast

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

The black clouds and the white clouds, Black means rain White means no rainToday it was different, It rained despite of white clouds.And nobody got wet.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

I'll teach you differences.