Quotes About Contrast

Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.

She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.

The strip lay poised on the needle-sharp fulcrum between the marvelous and the vulgar that was, to Rosa, the balancing point of Surrealism itself.

The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.

the way a drop of blue paint intensified whiteness.

When she first saw him, standing at the threshold of the reception room, contemplating departure before he had even arrived, she thought he had an American face, an American body. Buick shoulders, bulldozer jaw. Only if you considered his eyes would you be forced to conclude, and she did conclude, that he was beautiful.

the greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast

Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every picture there could be an ugly story.

In the Catalina crowd he stood out like a garbage man at a wedding.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

It seemed to him that every gleaming success in the city had a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view.

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

It was said that L.A. was a sunny place for shady people.

Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

Downtown L.A. was as quiet as Forest Lawn on most weekends, and he didn't expect to find the Happy Hocker open.

She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

ugly little things aren't the?

Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The

He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.

De mess leek eigenlijk meer op een goedkoop visrestaurant dan op een oorlogsonderzeeboot.

Ahora bien, es un hecho conocido que, a veces, los libros se tienen entre sí un odio mortal. Aún tratándose de libros enteramente normales, cualquiera que tenga un poco de tacto no colocará Justine junto a Heidi ni Las leyes tributarias junto a La historia interminable, aunque, naturalmente, los libros normales no pueden oponerse a eso...

All the world is luminous and terrible, full of pain.

That night I listened while a colonel explained the war in terms of protein. We were a nation of high-protein, meat-eating hunters, while the other guy just ate rice and a few grungy fish heads. We were going to club him to death with our meat; what could you say except, 'Colonel, you're insane?' It was like turning up in the middle of some black looneytune where the Duck had all the lines.