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Quotes About Contrast

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!
~ Matthew Lillard
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.
~ Cornelia Parker
If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
~ Mel Brooks
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
~ Gloria Swanson
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?
~ Bill Hicks
Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.
~ Russell Brand
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
~ Mark Twain
I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...
~ Chris Cornell
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
~ Franklin P. Adams
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
~ Lorrie Moore
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
~ Trevanian
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
~ Mary Stewart
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.
~ Frederick Lenz
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
~ Helen Keller
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
~ Abdul Kalam
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.
~ Gerard Way
A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
~ Keith Miller
The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites
~ Rumi
The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.
~ Shel Silverstein