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Quotes About Contrast

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!
~ John Cowper Powys
I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.
~ Mark Salling
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
~ Jean Dujardin
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
~ Uma Thurman
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
~ Colin Bateman, Mystery Man
What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
~ Vikas Swarup
My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
~ Andie MacDowell
It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!
~ Arthur Guiterman
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
~ David McCord
My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.
~ Eddie Murphy
Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.
~ Jordin Sparks
Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
~ Mason Cooley
Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
~ Pliny the Elder
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
~ Tom Robbins
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
~ William Shakespeare
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
~ Ally Condie
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
~ Amy Seimetz
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
~ Arundhati Roy
One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
~ Babatunde Adebimpe