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Quotes About Contrast

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
~ Henny Youngman
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
~ George Carlin
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
~ Salvador Dali
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
~ Peter De Vries
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
~ E. B. White
Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
~ Fred Allen
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There's two heads to every coin.
~ Jerry Coleman
And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.
~ Tommy Cooper
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
I washed mud off of mud.
~ Steven Wright
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.
~ Robert Sikoryak
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
~ Dan Simmons
I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.
~ Dylan Moran
Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!
~ Deyth Banger
Oh, hey, kettle, I'm pot and wow, you're black." - Owen
~ Olivia Cunning, Tie Me
You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.
~ Solange nicole
On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.
~ Tom Fitzpatrick
The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Pissing out the window, and sh*tting out the window, are two different things!
~ Tourettes Guy