Quotes About Contrast

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

Her view of the world was that it divided into 'exterminators' and 'exterminatees'. She would say: 'I am drawn to people who seem to have been born defeated or even profoundly lost.' She was a humorous writer with a tragic sense of life.

Other people's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones; she would see suddenly -- with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism -- the extent to which other people's preoccupations differed from her own.

Within every beast there's always some beauty!

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

He was a man who combined familial greatness with personal mediocrity.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

the black elite here swan round in squadrons of the latest luxury SUVs, each of which is worth ten times this eccentric old thing.

Es beweist nichts; ist jeder Beweiskraft entzogen durch das Vorteile-Nachteile-Denken, das böseste der Lebensprinzipien. Alles hat nun einmal seine Vor- und Nachteile, und schon wird das Unzumutbare zumutbar - als Nachteil der wiederum nichts als eine notwendige Eigentheit jedes Vorteils ist.

a country like China is accustomed to making difficult choices that Americans might not dream of considering