Quotes About Contrast

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

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.

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.

Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.

Love and hate aren't as far apart as you think.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.