Quotes About Contrast

everyone has learned something about how Data Hub actually works, in stark contrast with their mental models of how they thought it works.

Each joke suffers in comparison to its neighbors.

students in jeans and duffel coats to people in evening wear. Hot dog stands made no class distinctions

The new way of life called for a discipline and a succession of duties that contrasted with the freedom of the gatherers and hunters... The domesticating of plants and animals was a two-way process.

his analysis of Kiss Me, Kate, Joseph P. Swain notes Porter's technique of moving from the major mode to the minor mode or vice versa to distinguish the Padua songs from their Baltimore counterparts.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Imaginas que yo persigo lo extraño por ignorancia de lo bello, pero no es así, ocurre que porque tu ignoras lo bello, yo busco lo extraño.

The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

I don't see how My Fair Lady and Frankenstein are the same. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I do.

The waterway between our houses marked a boundary as clear as the one between white and black, rich and poor. It was just like at the school yard, only with adults: the Martellos had their circle, my parents had theirs, and the two were never meant to overlap.

Gorgeous. Gorgeous home," my mother had said. Seeing it myself, I understood why she liked visiting here so much, and why she always seemed so disappointed when she returned home to ours. It was obvious, wasn't it? Who wouldn't have wanted to trade their lives for this dream?

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

God bless… Chocolate City… and its vanilla suburbs.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Indeed, it required a nose both subtle and unprejudiced to understand and appreciate and thoroughly enjoy that Paris—not the Paris of M. le Baron Haussmann, lighted by gas and electricity, and flushed and drained by modern science; but the "good old Paris" of Balzac and Eugène Sue and Les Mystères—the Paris of dim oil-lanterns suspended from iron gibbets (where once aristocrats had been hung);

My old love for slums revived, and I found out and haunted the worst in London. They were very good slums, but they were not the slums of Paris—they manage these things better in France.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.