Quotes About Contrast

Earth-Sky…Day-Night…Sound-Silence…Dark-Light…Balance!

Earth-Sky…Quiet-Sound…Dark-Light…Up-Down…Balance!

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.

Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?

Everything had become so Twilight only without the sparklies.

The world was her oyster. Unlike Dixie, whose world was more like stinky, week-old dead fish.

Maybe it was just as well he was eating through a tube that English coffee was so stinking bad. Roast beef and pudding and soggy pastries and bad coffee. It was just as well.

Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

He is wearing he same black pants from yesterday, but no shirt, his body is brown and hard, perfectly proportioned. He knows that he is beautiful and somehow his makes him ugly.

Mechanical wrecks, sobbing out plumes of black smoke, marred the sugar-white perfection of the pass.

But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a tire swing out front, tied to a fat magnolia tree. Behind another, a lush vegetable garden. You got to fight not to give into despair, he told himself. You got to see the good that's mixed in with the bad.

In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

She must be the tallest person in the history of the world! Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS. He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.

Ninja therapy is a completely different branch. I could never do that. I don't even like wearing black.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.