Quotes About Contrast

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.