Quotes About Contrast

why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.

She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.

If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.

You mean you own land worth a million dollars?" I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars?

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. It was just after dark. A blustery March wind whipped the steam coming out of the manholes, and people hurried along the sidewalks with their collars turned up. I was stuck in traffic two blocks from the party where I was heading

What I wanted to say was that I knew Eric would never try to steal my paycheck or throw me out the window, that I'd always been terrified I'd fall for a hard-drinking, hellraising, charismatic scoundrel like you, Dad, but I'd wound up with a man who was exactly the opposite.

Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted that they couldn't even see the stars.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true —Dylan Thomas, 'Poem on His Birthday

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy," Mom told me. "You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [...] The true sea is cold and black, full of animals; it crawls under this thin green film made to deceive human beings.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.