Quotes About Contradiction

I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

Siblings are often very opposite.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

People who know me would not say that, at my core, I'm silly.

I am not as simple as I look.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing the opposite.

And as for the wheel you speak of,' my master finished, 'like every other, it turns both ways.

This leads to a veritable Kantian Antinomy of the aesthetic under late capitalism. Aesthetics must be simultaneously promoted beyond all measure, and yet reduced to nothing.

If you want to love, express hate. If you want to hate, express love.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

It was the most beautiful, wicked blasphemy I'd ever heard.