125 Contrast Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies. Bryan Fuller

You Madness Way Projects Lies Something Developing Individually Look Because Around Contrast Compare

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. C. L. R. James

Home Isolation Other Institutions Contrast Capitalist Stands Last

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out. C. S. Forester

Emotions Worn Everything Crises Out Dreadful Trivial Emotionally Counterfeit Returned Contrast Moved Hollywood England Stark Deeply

After spending eight years in Manchester, I received a very warm welcome to Turin. The people are very easy-going, in contrast to other parts of Italy such as Rome or Naples, where passions run much higher. Carlos Tevez

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another. Cass Sunstein

People Internet Active Medium Others Respects Television Web Web Sites Exchanging Allowing Individuals Ideas Another Without Passive Contrast Discussion Sites Information Really Engage Use Many Many Respects Even Groups Receive

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? Charles Cumming

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting. Chris Hemsworth

Character You Conflict More Makes Contrast Interesting

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. Conrad Hall

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe. Cynthia Ozick

War Character World Sometimes Will Location Mood Rapidly About Through Idea Between Contemplation Foreign Motion Came Stimulus Itself Contrast America Anything Which Bodies Europe Incident Novel World War Set

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. David Lee Roth

You Looking Stage Congress Adds Favorite Restaurant Study Like Know Without Real Up Contrast Expect Get Going Behind Maybe Want Door Chinese Really Your Acts

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. David Limbaugh

Hope Day Commitment Abandonment Nation Ran Pledge Promise Obama Could Performance Between Greater His Optimism Contrast Office America Current Usher Platform Brighter Hardly

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does. David Oyelowo

Truth Light Other Minutes Tails Points Red Sheds Does Tragedy Contrast America Get Certain Views Help Butler Chance

When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly. David Shields

I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. Dawn Richard

You Everybody Harmonies Else Type Way Bit Tell More Records Could Write Mainstream Stuff Wrote Because Always Metaphors Mix Were Contrast Did Different Format Used Different Type

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised. Douglas Rushkoff

I don't always feel sexy even though I have to look it, and I've just learned to go into on-and-off mode. I'm a mom at home, and then I go into work, and it's nice to have that contrast. I see a different person in the mirror when I'm at work with hair and makeup than when I'm home. Doutzen Kroes

Work Home Mom Mirror Hair Nice Though Sexy See Feel Look Learned Makeup Always Go Contrast Mode Than Person Just Different Then Different Person Even

I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people. Edward Enninful

People Changing About Perceptions Like Contrast Play

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. Frans de Waal

Love Relationship Joy Animals Own Tremendous Members Intuitive Unconditional Unconditional Love Feel Sharply Source Contrast Artifice Lack Children Much Connection Pets Species Received

Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism. Gad Saad

Knowledge Women Sex Practice Sexual Cosmetics Facial Bottom Bottom Line Accentuate Does Line Existing Contrast Difference Mean Engage Used

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart. Gary Hamel

Natural Matter Organization Hierarchy Charge Easy Record Chart Leaders Most Discover Contrast Any Formal Public Companies Appear

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day. Gary Locke

Music Day Great Class People Made Country Living Other Hundreds Throughout Part Still Equivalent Yearn Dollar Contrast Brands America American Middle Middle Class While China Movies Who Things Millions Millions Of People

I love to have contrast. Genndy Tartakovsky

Love Contrast

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. Georg Simmel

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change. Gianni Versace

Life Today Change Try Contrast Full

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others. Hanna Rosin

Women Men Entitled Scent Power Others Collaborative Evolutionary Tells Seed Seeking More Masculine Share Invincible Feel Powerful Altruistic Said Spread Contrast Psychology Us Resist

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