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Quotes About Contrast

The animal is the city where I live. In the black fur the ground breathes.
~ Bob Flanagan
(on nyc)...what's to love? the cold? the dirt? the crime?
~ Bob Grant
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
~ Bob Hope
Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
~ Bob Irwin
Look like barbie, Smoke like marley.
~ Bob Marley
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
~ Bob Marley
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view." ? Bob Proctor
~ Bob Proctor
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.
~ Bob Proctor
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.
~ Bob Proctor
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each gives the other one meaning.
~ Bob Ross
We put some dark in, only so our light will show. You have to have dark in order to show light.
~ Bob Ross
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
~ Bobby Bragan
So there they stood, side by side, the better for me to compare them, an elderly gentleman and a young man, as thousands of cobalt-colored flies swooped in thousands of wild nosedives, their metallic wings and bodies embroidering an immense tableau vivant made up of constantly shifting curves and splashes like the flow of paint in those gigantic Jackson Pollocks.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Attraverso i libri ho appreso che i cieli non sono affatto umani e che un uomo che sa pensare, anche lui non è umano, non che non lo voglia, ma ciò contrasta col giusto modo di pensare.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
jak si? cz?owiek uchleje, to w Kersku te? jest Klimand?aro
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
jsem džbán plný živé a mrtvé vody
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.
~ Boileau
It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum." 2666, Bolano
~ Bolaño, Roberto
When I ask one swimmer, a middle-aged woman named Kate, how she'd characterize the two clubs, she confides that the Dolphin Club is "like living with your parents—we're more conservative. The South End is like the frat house. They're more risky." Standing next to Kate is her friend, a South Ender, who laughs appreciatively at this.)
~ Bonnie Tsui
The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.
~ Bono
He is only six years older than me. Ooh-ooh-ooh," she wailed in a quite unaristocratic, entirely demotic manner, like a peasant woman, and Dolgorukoi's composure dissolved completely.
~ Boris Akunin
Une sortie, c'est une entrée que l'on prend dans l'autre sens.
~ Boris Vian