Quotes About Contrast

Always remember that night is the absence of light rather than the presence of darkness

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

Live fast in the digital! Die young in the analog!

Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.

You have always been dazzling - the life of every party, the glamour girl who dances until dawn." "Well, I am. But I'm dancing on broken glass. I'm Miss Havisham's wedding cake, Kit. A frothy, expensive, mice-eaten confection. I'm the Sphinx's nose, the fallen Colossus. I'm a beautiful ruin, and it's time that has done the deed.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If

Brisbane put one in mind of wolves and lithe jungle cats, while Edward conjured images of seraphim and slim young saints. It required an entirely different aesthetic altogether to appreciate Brisbane, one that I lacked. Entirely.

She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.

I'm jealous, of course. He's got a rich, pretty debutante and all I've got is a stiffy for the little brunette with the curly hair out there.

He smiled. "I think a blonde. Anything with black hair has always been trouble for me.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both.

Nice can have an edge.

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out.

The night is what allows us to see the stars. Darkness is nothing less than a thousand sunlights.

...darkness is not everywhere - for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees.

Beautiful things were sometimes mixed up with treacherous things, they could even happen at the same time, or one could lead to the other, I thought.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity.

Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.