Quotes About Contrast

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the comfort zone and that's why I love shooting here. In Bombay, the money is bigger, the stakes are bigger.

I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London.

The more time I spend working on 'Sekiro,' the deeper I sink into this zone of blood and gore and conflict. But if I want to get out of it, I can walk over to the other side of the studio and ease myself into a completely different feeling when I work on 'Deracine.'

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

No rose without a thorn.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Scenery here in Canada is by the mile, whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur, vastness and expansive views.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Comparisons are odious.