Quotes About Contrast

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents...

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

Crede che in fin dei conti tutti siano buoni e degni d'attenzione, e a me fa sorridere e mi riempie anche di una gran dolcezza, e un po' mi fa invidia, nella sua casa magica nel bosco, ché vuole bene a tutti, e io, invece, Taxi Driver ed esistenzialista.

El "señor Vicente" era un individuo que se parecía a un hombre todo lo que un buque pirata puede parecerse a un bisoñé.

Qué grises eran sus pequeñas cuitas de colegial, comparadas con la epopeya del sufrido y titánico Jean Valjean.

Cuarenta y dos años contra dieciocho, a la vejez viruelas, crucificadla por puta. Pero qué lindo sería morder esa fruta verde.

Edward Said y Theodor W. Adorno, que eran refinados musicólogos, dedicaron páginas muy interesantes al contrapunto y la disonancia, una escritura musical y una forma estética fundadas sobre el contraste más que sobre la armonía tonal.[1] Son excelentes metáforas para definir el papel del intelectual.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

the Wehrmacht was always something different from the Nazis. We always believed that the Wehrmacht stood as a contrast to the Nazis.53.

asking the respondents a series of questions about their everyday lives in the Third Reich. Here we found that there was something of a Dickensian "best of times, worst of times" aspect to the Third Reich. For many non-Jews, the Weimar Republic had been the "worst of times," and the Third Reich represented much better times for them. For Jews, the situation was reversed.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

The contrast between the empty hotel room and the roaring crowd in the auditorium can cause a lot of emotional confusion, too, but for the moment, that world could wait; I was safe with my loved ones again.

Two people that are exactly alike are just like two positives, they don't attract.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once.

As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful

Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the one and rejoice and be inspired by the other. Or whether we will let one of them tempt us so far away from the other that we have a deeply distorted view.

Vertical and horizontal lines represented for Mondrian the two opposing life forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine. This

She was honey-sweet and perfect... But that was just the surface layer; deeper there was more: darkness and sadness and pain

He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.

inventory-management systems, such as retailers, tend to be the developers of new approaches to inventory management. In contrast, manufacturers of inventory-management systems and equipment tend to develop improvements to the

user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast