Quotes About Contrast

the painful acuity of my sensations, even those that bring me joy; the joyful acuity of my sensations, even those that are sad.

Disasters in novels are always beautiful because no real blood is shed in them, nor do the dead rot; in novels, not even rottenness is rotten.

No siempre nos movemos atraídos por la luz, a veces es la sombra la que nos empuja.

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.

I told you you could hang around and work for food, she said, if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder. Why listen, Lady, he said with a grin of delight, the monks of old slept in their coffins! They wasn't as advanced as we are, the old woman said.

Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky.

It's just like any other city and cities ain't all that complicated." But they were. New York was swishing and jamming one minute and dirty and dead the next.

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Clifton and I don't even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He's a big fat guy, and if it weren't for me, no one would know who he is.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.

I like Lita because she is very feminine but aggressive.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.