Quotes About Juxtaposition

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

was as if Pee-wee Herman had opened his mouth to speak and James Earl Jones's voice had come out.

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

What I appreciate about Radiohead's work - and it's most evident in 'Hail to the Thief' - is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band's albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness.

I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

There was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.

there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

But in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) the threat must be to a vital value; and (2) the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another threat so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.

Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.

star charts this time, but rendered in calligraphy and gold and silver leaf, stunning juxtapositions of the technological future and the hand-crafted past.

Idea and image juxtapositioned, spinning between myth and rationality, the odd years spent at a right angle; if I over-reach, can I be sure of reclaiming a formula outside habitual movement? How easy it would be to finally slide over, allowing the rest to absolve itself. But remember society owes you nothing, therefore, doing yourself in isn't the answer, no reward for the resentment, and how would I know if it had proved freedom?

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere.

Every once and a while there's a point where mainstream and garage kind of cross.

You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.

The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Death is always incongruous.