Quotes About Contrast

I don't mind telling a dark side.

Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different.

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

I don't think I'm any different on 'Celebrity Juice' or daytime telly. It's what's going on around me that's different. I don't suddenly become all outrageous and rude on 'Celebrity Juice.'

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there's always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover.

Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

building, all tinted glass and natural lighting, was nothing like the cement tomb where

Night and day. San Francisco is wine and cheese; Oakland is beer and bratwurst.

the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough

you civilized men are soft; your lives are not nailed to your spines as are ours

By Crom, though I've spend considerable time among you civilized peoples, your ways are still beyond my comprehension

Cómo se parece a mí ?pensó?, y, por fortuna, qué distinto es de mí.

Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.

Strike looked down at his own plate: where there should have been chips, there was only salad.

Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.