Quotes About Contrast

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing out but then pulling in.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other.

In Sacramento it is fiery summer always, and you can gather roses, and eat strawberries and ice cream, and wear white linen clothes, and pant and perspire, at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and then take the cars, and at noon put on your furs and your skates, and go skimming over frozen Donner Lake...There is transition for you! Where will you find another like it in the western hemisphere?

Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.

Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other

it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down-stairs—where

To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.

But now a thought occurs to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. If some other biographies I have read had stopped with the ancestry until a like event occurred, it would have been a felicitous thing, for the reading public. How does it strike you? AWFUL

Here they come, a tilting! Five hundred mailed and belted knights on bicycles!

thread, but it's black.