Quotes About Contrast

Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Green and black go well together, dont they?

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.

Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.