Quotes About Contrast

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

When earth discovered that its nature was unlike that of heaven and far from it, it fled from heaven to the lowest place it could find and remained there in stillness.

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

We laughed hard at real stories of tragedy. It had to be real and it had to be funny. Somebody getting hurt was wonderful. Later, as the 2000 Year Old Man with Carl Reiner I explained the difference between comedy and tragedy: If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.

A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.

The basic two-step in humor is to (a) state some common problem, frequently with a cliché, and (b) create an unexpected ending or surprise.

I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes—the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

He has a strange face. It's all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he's got this thatch of black hair that's such a contrast. It's like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.

Because your grief at what you saw in those moments was too much for her to bear. Your pain made her weak. Her pain made you strong. Light and dark. Dark and light.

He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.

If we all went out with people our type we'd be bored out of our brains

Necesito sentirlo todo desesperadamente, de modo que cuando suceda algo maravilloso, el contraste sea tan enorme que guardaré el impacto como un tesoro durante el resto de mi vida.

Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.

You smell like a bar," he said. I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.