Quotes About Contrast

Schwächen: Du hattest keine. Ich hatte eine. Ich liebte.

telling me there's no difference between the moon and the Earth?

Reicher Mann und armer Mann standen da und sah'n sich an. Und der arme sagte bleich, wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat—that was the difference between them.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

A small patch of sunflowers came into view. Dozens of tall stalks topped with heavy golden flower heads swayed in they hot breeze. From a distance they looked like a group of ladies with their heads hung low, as if embarrassed that they'd arrived at a party wearing identical hats.

I stared at the room full of caskets on display—their lids gaping open like hungry mouths, waiting to swallow up the newly departed. I decided I'd much rather exit this world in a crackle of flames and a swirl of smoke through my ribs than be cooped up for all eternity in a dark box surrounded by puffy white satin.

Rivayete göre ?eytan, Mesih ?sa'ya Asya yakas?ndaki Çaml?ca tepelerinden, "dünyan?n ve içindeki krall?klar?n bütün ihti?am? budur" derken Bo?az'?, Haliç'i ve Bizans akropolisini göstermi?tir. Buras? kusursuz ve bu yüzden sürekli yeni ba?tan hayat bulan, ba?tan ç?kar?c? ?ey olarak tasvir edilecek bir yerdi.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

Myths project an ideal personality acting on the basis of superego demands, while fairy tales depict an ego integration which allows for appropriate satisfaction of id desires. This difference accounts for the contrast between the pervasive pessimism of myths and the essential optimism of fairy tales.

She'd been surprised to learn it had a semi-arid climate, with cactus plants growing right beside palm trees.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell.

Juxtaposition, you can't handle the juxtaposition!

for every Aretha, there's a chorus of cat-stranglers.

I once said to someone that one doesn't come to New York for beauty. I said that's what Paris, or Iceland is for. [...] I didn't know what the hell I was talking about. [...] The thing is, beauty comes in unbeautfiul ways here.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.

New York, it's in your face. In Washington, it's in your back.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.