Quotes About Contrast

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

The combination of David Cassidy and William Burroughs was undeniably weird.

Burning Man was a mash-up of Star Wars and Apocalypse Now and Disneyland and the Las Vegas Strip.

She caught him in his schoolboy mode, polite and dutiful, mailing letters to his grandparents and step-siblings, notes full of nothing written in perfect script. Yet he feels like she caught him so unaware and alone that she saw the other side, the wolf crawling through wreckage, through broken walls, cracked Venetian mirrors, dust, blood, a turned-over rocking horse - the child who doesn't know it's own name.

Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies.

They suggest that there are two contrasting types of approaches to solving environmental problems, which we may term the bottom-up and the top-down approach.

Hence geographic variation in whether, or when, the peoples of different continents became farmers and herders explains to a large extent their subsequent contrasting fates.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: "For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Only humans define themselves by conflict with other humans.

Maybe those sorts of yes or no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well … they're just a fathomless collection of greys and I don't do so well on the mid-tones.

Puede acaso el destino ser malo como un ser inteligente, y llegar a ser monstruoso como el corazón humano?»

it was as hot as Alaska in February.

Ogni "trasparenza" pone immediatamente il problema del suo contrario, il segreto.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

This is some kind of life, isn't it? Something good happening inside something bad.