Quotes About Contrast

By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come eventually, and summer, and they last for a while, but now, looking back, spring and summer seem too short, as if they were not much more than a couple of days, and even on those days, no matter how lovely the day, it still snows occasionally.

Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.

I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: 'There are people for you! Just think—they never go to sleep!' 'And why don't they?' 'Because they're fools.' 'Don't fools get tired, then?' 'How could fools get tired?

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.

O frio e o calor alternam dentro de mim com as palavras de uma frase, sonho com a expansão e a queda melodiosas. Leio frases de Goethe como se percorresse com todo o meu corpoa gama de entoações

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.

However beautiful it looked, it was quite inadequate to illuminate the altarpieces which mostly hung in the gloom of the side chapels; it only made the darkness more intense.

Sei insieme la quiete e la confusione del mio cuore.

No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell – what we take to be the song of angels is their song'.

If you look at Joshua's six opponents before he fought for the world title, Wilder's six opponents before the world title, Tyson's six opponents. The guys I fought and the guys they fought, it's the difference between night and day.

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

I'm equally happy bouncing across the African savannah in an old Land Rover as I am staying in a luxury resort in The Maldives. Travel and the wilderness excite me.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.

For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.