Quotes About Juxtaposition

Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church.

Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter—a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.

This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have been knocked over and spilled on everything.

From a proud unicorn stallion vomiting rainbows as he soars across the sky to toy unicorns pooping rainbows as colored jellybeans, modern culture puts its own twist on potty humor by making it light and fluffy. Don't get stuck asking yourself why unicorns fart rainbows — it's the juxtaposition of a magical creature and a disgusting everyday act that creates the joke.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Bello como el encuentro fortruito de una máquina de coser y un paraguas en una mesa de disección.

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.

Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. (a reference to a Tom Paine quote)

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside and domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only be parlayed into a memory

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.

Beyond anything we know to name, there moves a force arising from the pure juxtaposition of things, a force that draws us into being, that allows us to dwell fully in our lives. All pure juxtaposition is a gathering.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.