Quotes About Contrasts

I'm a real soft, sentimental guy who dreams up decapitations.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

La persona más mediocre puede ser objeto de un amor arrebatado, extravagante y bello como los lirios venenosos de las ciénagas

Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius.

He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.

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Warm in the sun, freezing in the shade, it was a season of extremes.

In childhood we inhabit a world of wonderful contrasts that later we often come to see as bizarre and do our best to rearrange, with everything in its 'proper' place. Unusual juxtapositions we label surrealistic. Yet what is surrealism but a second childhood with Freudian overtones which we have to be re-educated to enjoy? -- part of the tragedy of growing up

There is no consciousness without the discrimination of opposites.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I can remember when the air was clean and the sex was dirty." -George Burns

Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!

The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion, which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal, will tremble at the crowing of a cock.

I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'

Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you.

That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.

anyhow, I'm now using the knife the reader sent me to clean my fingernails. better this than ripping it deep into somebody's guts. I prefer to do that with the poem.

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.

New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

human reality is often simultaneously somber and funny.

Margate's never been easy, always hard. 'If you want a dirty weekend, go to Margate,' I always say. You can be as dirty as you like. Van Gogh and Turner, Ronnie Biggs and the Krays all went there. Romans, Vikings, Hell's Angels, teds, mods, rockers and punks, they all fought there.

And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Opposites attract. But opposites destroy.