Quotes About Contrast

These are not people who want to slum it. These are people whose primary purpose is to live in the city but feel like they're in the suburbs.

There is such a thing as a pretty trailer park, you know. Diane

I mean, doesn't it seem like it could have been two people? Somehow? Michelle's murder was just—Your mom and Debby were like, uh, hunted down almost. But Michelle dies in her bed, covers pulled up. They have different feels to them. I think.

But on certain key issues, like Germany, he saw things clearly, as the prince did not.

Obviously, retired life in Florida didn't offer a whole lot of excitement. Forty below in Fargo! she'd exlcaim. I can't believe it! Why, at home it's probably seventy-five or eighty. It was always seventy-five or eighty at home, even when it was actually a hundred and twelve or in the midst of a hurricane.

There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call it existential.

Dark hair, olive skin, handsome features. It always made Amy guilty to find him good-looking. Ian Kabra.

Melody's not a serious gamer like me

There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

If she hadn't adopted the hippie lifestyle, she would have made a terrific Marine drill sergeant.

parents genuinely loved her—not like my dad

The sounds provide as much variety as the sights—sirens, honking horns, squealing brakes, blaring stereos, leaf blowers, jackhammers, excited shouts. It's like a guy who's been fed bread and water his whole life suddenly stumbling into a humongous feast with every kind of food and drink imaginable.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead

Ich liebe den Engel, so ein Teufel ich auch sein mag.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

They looked like schoolboys, but with the Vietnamese age drops suddenly like the sun—they are boys and then they are old men.

Do you know that St Matthew mentions Hell fifteen times in fifty-two pages of my bible and St John not once?