Quotes About Contrast

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

if that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me...

But I've always been a genius of secrecy, I thought, quite unlike Wertheimer who basically couldn't keep anything a secret, had to talk about everything, had to get everything out in the open as long as he lived. But naturally unlike most others we were lucky not to have to earn a cent because we had enough from the very beginning. Whereas

She herself had never had enough money and never enough time and hadn't even been unhappy once, in contrast to those she called refined gentlemen, who always had enough money and enough time and constantly talked about their unhappiness. She

Entre la rencontre obligatoire du village (l'horreur) et l'anonymat total des mégapoles (l'enfer), Paris est la ville aux proportions justes.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole