Quotes About Contrast

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.

The darkness seemed to be rising rather than the sun falling. As if darkness were the natural order around here.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

How at first a sweetness; how, by turns, a gift, a darkness.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

É feia. Mas é uma flor. Furou o asfalto, o tédio, o nojo e o ódio.

No Brasil não há outono mas as folhas caem - In Brazil there is no autumn but the leaves fall

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Por encima de aquel cansancio y de aquella podredumbre se levantaba la luz de la luna. No había más que mirar al cielo para verla. Abajo, en los callejones, se olvidaba una de ella...

I knew that in a few minutes I'd have to enter a happy, unthinking world. A world that revolved around the solid pedestal of money, with an optimistic view I knew something about from listening to the conversations of my friends.

Pensé que cualquier alegría de mi vida tenía que compensarla algo desagradable. Que quizás esto era una ley fatal.

He was gorgeous on the outside but a train wreck on the inside. I could never understand why he did not see himself the way everyone else did. Brian started Monmouth College the following

Day dawns, a fine autumn morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man would have been happier to be alive. He is in fact dead.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.

People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.

Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive.

Dogwalking can lead o the most cruddy, crapped up areas of any town. But on a snowy day, all sins are covered, it's a WINTER WONDERLAND!

yellow fingers because he smoked a lot. And he danced

Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls' dressing room to the owners' penthouse. However, the newcomer—who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night—is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold.