Quotes About Contrast

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

O'Neill jumped out into the road, jammed a note into the driver's hand, and dodged another motorcyclist as he made his way past the endless huddle of peep shows and Chinese restaurants into a narrow, Dickensian alley piled high with rubbish.

The tires catch, the truck moves off, and for an instant there is a hole of quiet, a pocket of air without any noise, before the call of radios and televisions and bees and wind rushes in to fill my ears.

There's something about her that reminds me of Ellen, but then I realize that it's Ellen who's reminded me of Annabelle. Ellen is dim in comparison.

Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in brothels, one especially detailed episode running to more than forty pages. Few critics mention the brothels but they are more fun than the hawthorns.

Yellow and Black

Black and green

Now looking across my latte at this confident smiling Starbucks employee I felt sorry for myself. She seemed carefree to me so young so full of options. Later I would learn that she had seen more hardship in her life than I could conceive of having seen in three lifetimes.

Faulkner's Fried Food and Funeral Parlour. You die – we fry.

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward.

Gronk dancing topless was ice cream and cookies compared to this.

Commercial "silver" debts among traders and other entrepreneurs were not subject to these debt jubilees. Rulers recognized that productive business loans provide resources for the borrower to pay back with interest, in contrast to consumer debt. This was the contrast that medieval Schoolmen later would draw between interest and usury.

This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn't going to miss the gray. If

By juxtaposing the two contrasting images, John has forged a new symbol of conquest by sacrificial death.

He is the antithesis of the gregarious pol with a highball in one hand and a cigar in his mouth, offering a colorful dose of political lore under a dim bar light.

As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no longer reached the thin blond paneling of either wall, I remembered the plush two-story brick home Susan and I had shared in North Atlanta. It was nice. Very nice. But this impoverished place and the fringe existence I was now living here felt more like home.

The darkness will always outnumber the stars.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.