Quotes About Contrast

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis , March 2006, p73]

What Cinder is like to look at: The paws express Cinder the mischievous kitten, playing innocently, and the eyes and mouth reveal the lovable kittycat, the one who wants to sit in your lap, and the whole leopard reveals something else. The affectionate kitten is real, the mischievous kitten is real—and so is the leopard.

I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.

Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.

Unten wimmelten schwarze Regenschirme und helle Frauenbeine, gelbe Autobusse, Bogenlampen. Sogar ein Baum war da, er streckte Zweige, nicht allzuweit vom Hotel, andere Zweige wie die Bäume in Fredersdorf. Er hatte ein Inselchen von Erde mitten im Asphalt, dieser Berliner Baum, und rund um die Erde einen Zaun, ein Gitter, als müsse er gegen die Stadt geschützt werden. Kringelein, von soviel Fremden und Überwältigendem umgeben, freundete sich ein wenig mit diesem Baum an.

Nogle ting er bedre i Sverige end i Danmark. De har bedre naboer.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly a thousand

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.

But maybe I am wrong, how death is simply death, each slightly different from the next but the final strike all the same. How the skin responds to a wedding dress in the same way it responds to rain.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.