Quotes About Contrast

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

guess rich folks can have some ghetto drama, too, because that was too much. But if I had to choose between rich-ghetto drama and poor-ghetto drama, I'm going with rich every time. At least I can buy some retail therapy to help me through my issues.

He was medium-short, with a central circumference that made it seem likely he would grunt if he bent over to tie his shoestring. Nothing, of course, like Nero Wolfe's globular grandeur.

My favorite spot on earth is only a seven-minute walk from where I live, Nero Wolfe's house on West 35th Street: Herald Square, where you can see more different kinds of people in ten minutes than anywhere else I know of. One day I saw the top cock of the Mafia step back to let a Sunday-school teacher from Iowa go first through the revolving door of the world's largest department store. If you ask how I knew who they were, I didn't, but that's what they looked like.

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.

On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll's houses.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

It's OK to notice what you don't want, because it gives you contrast to say, "This is what I do want." But the fact is, the more you talk about what you don't want, or talk about how bad it is, read about that all the time, and then say how terrible it is—well, you're creating more of that.

Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

I can come up to town, Belinda. It's not as if I'm going to darkest Africa.

It was like smiling at a gargoyle.

There's nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

She smiled, and there seemed to be only perfection in that smile. Her lips were full and red, and above them, perfectly positioned, was a pert nose and two almond-shaped eyes. The eyes were like sunlight in color, a direct contrast to her glistening mane.

discovered a new position for intercourse (turned out to be a minor variation on Old Hundredth; Freddie snorted and shook his carrotty curls) to a recipe for chocolate sour cream waffles in cannabis sauce.

Thus, Paul and John define the opposite poles on the New Testament's spectrum of attitudes toward Judaism.

Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.

Hence perhaps the most important contrast between the forces of evil and the army of the Lamb is the contrast between deceit and truth.

Death is the most predictable of life's events. It is the opposite of a miracle.

Why did the sheep bells of the Falkland Islands ring louder than the church bells of Jerusalem?' —

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

But after you have been here for a while you realize that inside one country there are two separate worlds.

They glow rather than shine. The light within or from above appears to suffuse the body. Shine, on the other hand, is light bouncing back off the surface of the skin. It is the mirror effect of sweat, itself connoting physicality, the emissions of the body and unladylike labour, in the sense of both work and parturition. In a well-known Victorian saw, animals sweated, and even gentlemen perspired, but ladies merely glowed. Dark