Quotes About Contrast

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The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both.

It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.

Os dois gigantes da literatura passariam a vida próximos um ao outro, mas jamais se encontrariam nem pessoal nem ideologicamente.

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Not his real name, darling, but my own name for him. I never thought it could be like this. I never thought one could be so close, and yet so different to a single human being. He is everything I've never been, and yet I love him more than any person or anything I've ever known.

she realized that here in Washington she'd seen people shot, a thing she'd never seen before, even on the reservation, a place considered savage by the rest of the country.

Some people are one way and some people are another and that's that.

Je vis, je meurs ; je me brûle et me noie ; J'ai chaud extrême en endurant froidure

Les gens riches à Paris demeurent ensemble, leurs quartiers, en bloc, forment une tranche de gâteau urbain dont la pointe vient toucher au Louvre, cependant que le rebord rebondi s'arrête aux arbres entre le Pont d'Auteuil et la Porte des Ternes. Voilà. C'est le bon morceau. Tout le reste n'est que peine et fumier.

You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness.

Paris'te varl?kl?lar hep bir arada yaÅŸarlar, oturduklar? semtler, blok halinde, sivri ucu Louvres'e kadar uzanan, yar?m ay ÅŸeklindeki kenar? ise Pont d'Auteuil ile Porte des Ternes aras?ndaki aÄŸaçlar?n hizas?nda duran bir kentsel pasta dilimi oluÅŸturur. Ä°ÅŸte. Buras?, kentin lezzetli dilimidir. Gerisi sadece azapla tezektir.

That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But

Suffering exhibits itself; pleasure and the needs of the flesh hang their heads in shame.

I knew a real archangel on the downgrade, though still rather frisky, even resplendent in a way.

Entre el penis i les matemàtiques, senyor Baryton, no hi ha res! Res! Hi ha el buit!

How couldn't he understand what happened, how death could make one person take to bed and another person sit on a rock

old age homes could look bright but feel gloomy—a place where old people went to die. And that the Sun Center was the opposite—a place where old people go to live.

Sometimes you have to look at what's really bad," he said, "to see what's really good.

When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. ... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!