Quotes About Contrast

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

Remembering the story made me smile, and it was only when I smiled that I realized I had been crying.

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

Happiness and misery are two sides of the very same coin. To seek one is to seek the other.

In 'Nach... ', I go all out, but 'Saraswati... ' is an introvert character. The two things are totally opposite.

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.

It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

I look Italian, but I act Irish.

I'm from Italy, but when I'm in L.A., I dress a little bit rock and roll.

I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

I'm living the American dream, but I'm in Japan.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.

You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.