Quotes About Contrasts

The difference between Obama and Romney is the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee.

While the fashion in Paris is very chic and classy, the fashion in Hong Kong is very hip, young and colorful.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.

Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want respectful, decent representation that contrasts so starkly with what we have in Washington.

Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

Bred to the pavement and steel that became his life's work, he nonetheless marvels at the annual miracle of baby peregrine falcons hatching high atop the George Washington's towers, and at the sheer botanical audacity of grass, weeds, and ailanthus trees that defiantly bloom, far from topsoil, from metal niches suspended high above the water.

What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

crees que vas a tener amigos que son de una manera y acabas con gente que es justo lo contrario.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.