Quotes About Contrast

ladies' clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Loud music doesn't bother the deaf.

Only a colored look can see a black and white photo.

The car has no muscle and the cell phone has no brain.

The shoe is new, but the sock has a hole."

The sock is punctured, but the shoe is new."

There are no differences without comparisons."

Those who do not know peace think that hell is paradise."

Artificial light attracts insects, spiritual light drives insects away."

There are so many colors in black and white.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

They added a cheap gift to the expensive product, and made the whole deal less attractive. Less is more in this case.

More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than

single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

The same sound will be experienced as very loud or quite faint, depending on whether it was preceded by a whisper or by a roar.

Thoughts of any aspect of life are more likely to be salient if a contrasting alternative is highly available.

Look at the snow, the woman was saying to the child. The snow absolves Vienna of its sins. The snow falls on Vienna while the missiles rain on Tel Aviv.

My business is hurting, too. Everyone on the street is in trouble. I never thought I would say this, but the world was a much better place when the Americans were still rich.

I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.