Quotes About Contrast

I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.

I think that purists may regard the '80s and Jerry Goldsmith being the quintessential example of film scoring, but that was also a very prominent type during a time when soundtracks were purely songs, and there was very little score.

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

German football is very different to football in South America.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

In the Concrete Jungle, there's definitely no Southern hospitality.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Southern Republicans are guided by the Bible. Western Republicans read the Constitution. Seen in historical terms, it's the difference between a movement descended from George Wallace and one that harks back to Barry Goldwater.

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.