Quotes About Contrast

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

I grew up having to piss in a bucket 'cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I'll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don't have to strain.

In a crass and materialistic world there must inevitably be a scattered few here and there in whom pumpkins touch no chord.

Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

Hell couldn't be all bad if it had jewelry.

You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich. That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream? Of course I was the cream. Sha.--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)

Nicht alles, was hell ist, ist gut. Und nicht alles, was dunkel ist, ist schlecht. Die Dunkelheit und das Böse sind nicht immer gleichzusetzen, ebenso wie das Licht nicht immer Gutes verheißt.

darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Nepamiršk, tamsa ne visada tas pat, kas blogis, o šviesa ne visada neša vien g?r?

Oh,great.It's like we're being bussed in from the fucking projects, Aphrodite and I'm hoping for urban renewal, Aphrodite grumbled.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

It is never difficult to distinguish between with a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

It seems to be one of Nature's laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn well. At the age of seven he had been an extraordinarily beautiful child, but after that he had gone all to pieces; and now, at the age of twenty-five, it would be idle to deny that he was something of a mess.

But dragons are one thing and aunts are another.

It seems rummy that water should be so much wetter when you go into it with your clothes on than when you're just bathing, but take it from me that it is.

The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

We are going to do a play, and we want another man. The man who was going to play one of the parts has had to go back to London. Poor devil! Fancy having to leave a place like this and go back to that dingy, overrated town.

You could tell it was classical, because the banjo players were leaning back and chewing gum; and in New York restaurants only death or a classical speciality can stop banjoists.

You are the trembling of time, that passes between vertical light and darkened sky

Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt?

Soy el desesperado, la palabra sin ecos, el que lo perdiò todo, y el que todo lo tuvo.

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life, bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam, combined with steel and wire and pollen to make up your firm and delicate being. Pablo Neruda's epitaph for Tina Modotti