Quotes About Contrast

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

My dad is the opposite of me. He's so outgoing and so loud.

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

I think the outside world is more fascinated by the fact that me and my wife are competing against each other than we are ourselves.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.

Don't overdo it. If you're doing a strong lip, keep the eyes simple, and the other way around.

When I lived in Japan, I only noticed the bad aspects of the country. I didn't really like Japan then, but when I moved overseas, I was able to appreciate the good side more.

Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.

Het leven ís geen galerie, van boven tot onder in steriel wit geschilderd, met maar één kubistisch winterlandschapje aan de muur, of met maar één stuk excrement dat aan één draadje aan de zoldering hangt te draaien, of met maar één aquarium waarin op sterk water ocharme één beest ronddrijft dat proper in tweeën is gesneden, of wat er vandaag de dag verder nog allemaal naar voren wordt geschoven als zijnde 'de kunst van het moderne memento mori'.

Incomprehensible is no better than banal – it's just its flip-side.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

I'd seen more menace in a Care Bear.

Not manic and hell-bent like New York

photographed dressed as an Arab sheikh, in robe and headdress. The photograph is preserved among his papers, pasted next to another picture in which he is in the same pose but dressed in a tailored suit and expensive tie. One is labeled "East" and the other "West.

The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.

LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me . In New York it's fuck you .

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things

El Diablo hizo el mundo mientras Dios estaba durmiendo.

New York, of course, is to be in endless surreal situations where a fifty-thousand dollar, gun-metal Mercedez pulls up into a puddle of blood, and out steps a twenty-five karat blonde transvestite with a two dollar wristwatch.