Contrast Quotes

• In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Dream
  • Fashion
  • Emotion

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Fear
  • Contrast
  • Dissent

• Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Ghost
  • Contrast
  • Step Out

• Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Stand
  • Within
  • Contrast

• I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Thinking
  • Say
  • Cannot

• My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Feel
  • Reflection
  • Contrast

• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  

  Anita Loos
  • World
  • Alone
  • Star

• There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Interests
  • Contrast
  • Collective

• Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Contrast

• Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Pleasure

• Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Green

• If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy - most people never heard of this fellow before this year.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• Contrast is the dramatist's method.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Method
  • Contrast

• You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Experience
  • Fantasy
  • Contrast

• A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Country
  • Fundamentals
  • Contrast

• The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Today
  • Contrast

• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mood
  • Strange
  • Lines

• The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Quality
  • Moral
  • Balance

• The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

  

  Alessandro Manzoni
  • Misfortune
  • Tranquility
  • Arousing

• In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Against
  • Medieval
  • Florence

• Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Clothes
  • Shining
  • Disadvantages

• It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • World
  • Different
  • Unique

• Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want the government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Party
  • Gentleman
  • Anarchist

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