Quotes About Contrast

Ugly people look prettier in the dark.

We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.

We have hot and cold running water where we live . . . Hot in the Summer and Cold in the Winter!

Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy song. Bright with... Youthful joy... Lightning...

Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

You never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

The limits of binary thinking are spooky enough

We looked each other up and down, checking out how the other looked. She won that battle. Her tailored suit was well made, her dark silk stocking tops visible just beneath her too-short skirt. Her make-up was immaculate: bright red lips and highlighted eyes stood out against her smooth, almost imperceptible foundation. And there I stood in my frayed grey trousers, my leaking black brogues and my gaudy military jacket.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

It's just like I remember," she said, smiling. "Only crappier," said Mallory.

Nico, dresses in virginal white, sang in a voice one writer described as "like a cello getting up in the morning

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Sweet pulp and sour skin - Or was it sweet outside, and sour within?

sounding cheerful, Ms. Manuelito sounding sad.

It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.

nightlife. She was more of a dancing shoes kind of girl than a hiking boots kind of girl. There was a pained sweetness about her

all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;

None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'