Quotes About Juxtaposition

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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

It's funny: I did 'Step Brothers' the same summer I did 'Revolutionary Road,' which are completely different.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

All the rooms of the new house were full to bursting with familiar things made strange and disturbing by their crowdedness and juxtaposition in this new setting, like an unwieldy nightmare into which an entire life has been shuffled out of impersonal malicious glee.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.

That night at Dumbarton was a classic of its kind. She had hopes still, I think, of enslaving me despite myself with her charms. And I probably thought the same. We both found we were mistaken. It had its moments; but she has the mind and morals of a jungle cat. She didn't enjoy meeting … another of the same.

She, too, had an air of discipline and precision about her, but it was at odds with her aristocratic face, mane of rich mahogany hair, brown eyes, and civilian dress. The others were kitted out in body armor, helmets, night-vision gear, and assault weaponry: all she had was a string of pearls. Who in God's name would wear a string of pearls on a mission like this?

Whenever I do a play, there are 'Star Wars' fans at the stage door, and they're always lovely - so excited and so effusive about the storylines and the characters. When you're doing something really serious, and the 'Star Wars' fans are waiting outside, it's a nice juxtaposition.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Twirling the Jeep into the drive, Josie stopped next to a Mercedes.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

Composition is the arrangement of unequal things

'Hill Street, ' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

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.

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

Trying to talk about both topics simultaneously is like mixing your apple pie and your lasagna into one pan and throwing it in the oven. No matter how long you bake it, it's going to come out a mess.