Quotes About Contrast

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

It was a world, in other words, that gave equal weight to modesty and dignity as to pomp, comfort, and splendor.

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.

He could have had "dull" tattooed across his forehead, but that would have made him too exciting.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

In itself, the apparently dualistic nature of our phenomenal world is not a problem. We can live with hot and cold, love and hate, gain a loss, light and shadow, sacred and profane. The problem is that we human beings inevitably tend to choose for one side of the polarity and against the other side, artificially attempting to split life down the middle.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.

One thing about Idaho: it don't look good if it's not riddled with bullet holes.

The pre-attentional parts of the self use a complicated analytic process to determine relevance. They weigh a large variety of factors to gauge relevance; this includes such things as the intensity of the sensory inflow, its novelty, the degree of contrast between a sensory stimulus and its sensory background, and its rarity.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Sindy is British and much more demure and well brought up than Barbie, who seems like a brash, oversexualised gold-digger if you ask me. The sort of girl who would marry a minor Rolling Stone. Even in her air-hostess uniform she looks like a hard-eyed little pole dancer.

the Tenth Amendment clarifies that governmental powers are either "delegated" or "reserved," in contrast with rights of the people, which may not be "infringed" or "violated." The people also have powers that are "reserved.