Quotes About Contrast

Happy I'm stupid. You're smart. I was wrong. You were right. You're the best. I'm the wrost. You're very good-looking. I'm not very attractive.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

if i had to describe myself i would say that i was am a cross between Jack Parr aNd MicheaL J. fox.

Earle was the single exception to this rule, the only other adult she seemed fully at ease with. Of course, having just turned twenty-two, he was a child by comparison to the aged Mary.

Why do you want the world to be black and white? It's not.

London eats up pretty girls, you know...

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Ik denk dat hij het oog van de cycloon wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest door orkanen, maar in het oog is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel.

Tsjallingtsjes strenge gezicht was steeds bereid om van de ene seconde op de andere volledig te verschieten in iets totaal anders, alsof in een donkere kamer het licht werd aangedaan. Misschien was het talent tot lachen eigenlijk wel de ware geest, meer dan het vermogen tot intellectuele krachttoeren.

En ook werden zij verlamd door de vreemde schoonheid van het tafereel: die wondermooie jongen met aan zijn voeten die wanschapen, twintig jaar oudere zwakzinnige, terwijl in de moestuin de pauw naar hen keek met een waaier van vijftig ogen.

My early choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The difference between bad and worse is a lot bigger than the difference between good and better.

The phonographs of hades in the brainAre tunnels that re-wind themselves, and loveA burnt match skating in a urinal—

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

all things that seem good and evil are the opposite ends of one line, and it is difficult to say where evil ends and good begins, for these are comparative terms. A lesser good would seem evil when compared with a greater good, and the lesser evil in comparison with the greater evil would appear good. If there were no evil, good would not have been valued. Without injustice, justice would not have been appreciated. Therefore the whole of life's joy is expressed in duality.

He drew witches, wolves, and ghosts; she sketched landscapes and cottages.

Sometimes, when the sun is shining, it's daytime,"Robert snapped. "And sometimes, when it's dark, it's because there's an eclispe,"Leslie snapped back.

When everything is bent into a jolly shape, everything feels more mournful than it should.