Quotes About Contrast

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

Life is hard. Next to what?

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

I'm actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.