Quotes About Contrast

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, or actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road.

I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky.

She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.

No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preeminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him.

'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

I can't see a Twisted Sister on the country charts.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

I might look like somebody who lives next door but I've a dark, twisted sense of humour.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

There have always been two people jostling for control of my life, two totally opposite characters. The first one is super-confident, bulletproof, a showman, and an extrovert. He tries to make people laugh, messes about, gets into trouble, shrugs it off. The other character is withdrawn and reflective.

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.