Quotes About Contrast

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is more intimate, more personal.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

It was very confronting after growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, then going to India. There's such a different emphasis on everything: food, family, hygiene, love, marriage. It's why it's so exciting, why it's so beautiful.

It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

She has one green eye and one brown one. Have

que réside sa faiblesse, est un monde unidimensionnel, qui ne comporte que deux termes opposés : nous et eux, ami et ennemi, courage et lâcheté, héros et traître, noir et blanc. Ce système de références convient bien à une situation orientée vers la mort mais non à celles de la vie. A

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.