Quotes About Contrast

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

That small difference made all the difference.

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be.

Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

The plants have long since withered and died. I am apparently not very good at looking after things. Now I stand on the roof, staring out at London's winking darkness below. Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace.

Kentucky, huh? Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

Where once it had offered her a welcome sense of freedom, now the vast expanses seemed only to emphasize her sense of isolation.

It was deceptive, the sunshine- it promised more than it could actually deliver.

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.

I stared in disbelief at the little oasis of calm and beauty that had been created from my barren rooftop.

The woodland smelled of moss, damp wood and healthy decay, so unlike the sinister damp of the house, where she often found herself wondering what might be rotting away around them.

See, now you're saying a nice thing and yet somehow it sounds like a bad thing.' 'Not bad,' he said, 'Just...different.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

May the Lord give you peace," was Francis's most common remark to people. What a contrast this was to the apocalyptic fear-mongering of most other wandering spiritual groups in those days, and how different it was even from the doctrinaire preaching of the new Dominican Order.

Success is always less funny than failure.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and worse.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

One forgets that though a clown never imitates a wise man, the wise man can imitate the clown.

WITH ITS SOARING ceilings and oily oaken tables, the central branch of the Berkeley Public Library harks back to a grander, more civic-minded era. No other local building embodies more starkly the gulf between 1900s idealism and twenty-first-century reality.

like a party hat at a funeral.

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.