Quotes About Contrast

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

You and I, we have seen all of this before, the manner in which two opposing forces – no matter how disparate their origins, no matter how righteously one begins the conflict – end up becoming virtually identical to each other.

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Darkness was anathema to shadows.

Dragonflies big enough to ride - imagine whizzing through the clouds, looking down on everything! Seeing how beautiful it all was, and then dropping hundreds of bombs on it.

such states existed only in comparison

Years ago, she had not known the magnitude of the loss, for there had been nothing to offer a contrast to misery, hunger and abuse.

Most of everyday life is spectacularly nonlinear; if you listen to your two favorite songs at the same time, you won't get double the pleasure. The same goes for consuming alcohol and drugs, where the interaction effects can be deadly. By contrast, peanut butter and jelly are better together. They don't just add up—they synergize.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

In real life we want only the best for the people we care about. In fiction, we want things to get the worst for the characters we care about the most, at least on their pathway to the climax.

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart.

There is nothing like a sanitized present to make one yearn for the wicked past.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.

Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.