Quotes About Contrast

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

My favorite colors are black, white and silver.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

If you look at my acting career, I never played a role that was similar to anything my brother played. I was always cast as the bad guy or a gangster, because my brother didn't do those kind of roles.

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

High reputation beats high similarity.

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Everything happens to me exactly opposite from how it happens to everyone else.

Compare photographs of Jimmy Swaggart and Donald Trump, and they look like brothers from some strange union of Mardi Gras floats: huge heads, strange colors, balloon bodies, mouths disconnected from brains.

I'm always aware that under the spritely twitter of birds, bones are being crunched and ribbons of flesh are being stripped away, all of it the work of bright-eyed creatures without feeling or conscience. I don't look to nature for comfort or serenity.

A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie

She was almond-buttery with sweat and sun, her face corrugated with a thousand caramel wrinkles and her hair flour dusted, but the rest of her seemed decades younger.