Quotes About Contrast

said Mrs Bradley, looking like a benevolent alligator and then suddenly screeching like a slightly demented macaw.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.

Similarly, if you fill the frame with a dark subject, such as dark rock or a black bear, and use the exposure recommended by the meter, you will get a gray rock or gray bear.

The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

For me,the Bild-Dichtung[image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

This is a perfect world. An imperfect world would have been terrible.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

All theory is gray, but the tree of life, my friend, is green.

The ridiculous arises out of a moral contrast, in which two things are brought together before the mind in an innocent way.

It is natural that if some fright or calamity surprises us when we are enjoying ourselves it will affect us more strongly than usual, in part because of the contrast thus made very palpable, and in part, and perhaps more, because our senses have been opened to feeling and so take in impressions much faster.

Ko stalno mozga, znas, taj lici meni na bravce sto se, gonjeno zlim duhom, vrti u krug po pustopolju suhom, a okolo se socna ispasa svud zeleni

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective—on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely on facing the future?

Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?" Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before." "And I hope I never breathe it again.

Os espectadores às vezes riem bastante durante as cenas mais sinistras de Macbeth, Roger me contara certa vez. Por quê?, eu perguntara. Porque coisas horríveis são engraçadas.