Quotes About Contrast

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.

jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

Comedians can turn laughter into tears and back again.

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

Jehovah's Witness? Don't sweat it. I'm going to hell, already booked my ticket. Bright side? I'm pagan. Your hell is my heaven... if for no other reason than you won't be there.

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .