Quotes About Contrast

What appears to be black on white to whites may appear to be all white to black.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

The profession of photography is anti-elitist. There are very few professions where even when you are at the top, a household name, you might still be standing on a draughty street corner with your feet getting wet and cold, waiting for something to happen. At that moment you are on the same level as a homeless person, standing on a street corner, begging. In most professions, the higher up you go, the more likely you are to go around in a chauffeur-driven car.

Looking down, the Israeli pilots could tell their troops from the Egyptians' when they saw ice-cream trucks, hot-dog vans, and laundry wagons navigating the desert.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.

In my hometown, there are two brothers with contrary characters. One is clever and eloquent, the other is foolish and silent. The foolish one seems to have all the time in the world. The clever one is always busy depleting his life.

The way to extinguish a shadow is to increase the light.

The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.

TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.

He walks slowly along beneath the dripping pine trees, staring straight ahead of him, like someone who has no idea where he is going, and his red bag is the only spot of bright colour in the driving rain.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Onun ya?ad??? yerde ya?amak, onun gibi ya?amak de?ildi.

Na ovome svijetu ništa mi nije teže padalo nego kad se neki tužan ?ovjek s teško?om pokušava smijati.

Ama ruhumuz böyle gökyüzlerinde uçup dururken birdenbire yere inip insan küçüklü?ü ile kar??la?mak ne tuhaf oluyor.

Çünkü sanat, yeryüzünde ve insanlar?n içinde olup bitenleri, çöplükle saray? ayn? hakikatten uzak ve güzelle?tirici örtüye bürüyen ay ????? gibi, tatl? bir yalan bulutunun arkas?ndan göstermeye mecburdu,..

She was a French rose growing wild amid the hothouse flowers of London.

It was like looking at heaven from the ferry to hell.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

I couldn't help noticing that people coming out of restaurants always had more joyful faces than those coming out of temples. That intrigued me.

Though unity is the basic fabric of creation, duality brings texture, design, and color to life.

I swear I'm licked before I start, trying to tell you all what Mr. Onselm looked like. Words give out — for instance, you're frozen to death for fit words to tell the favor of the girl you love. And Mr. Onselm and I pure poison hated each other. That's how love and hate are alike.