Quotes About Total Opposites

#1. We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.

Bent Saether

#2. I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

David Beckham

#3. Praise means so much when it comes from a lunatic

Michael Chabon

#4. The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

Robert K. Massie

#5. I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

#6. Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Robert Fisk

#7. You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

James Dyson

#8. Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

Amos Oz

#9. I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people, things and information to be fit in order to be legible, made to live, or in order to facilitate death and abandonment.

Dean Spade

#10. The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.

Mark Teixeira

#11. It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.

Peter Menzel

#12. A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Enoch Powell

#13. I think everyone can enjoy games.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#14. I've always danced. I've always been around it.

Lacey Schwimmer

#15. Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

George Carlin

#16. To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

Debasish Mridha

#17. When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.

Anthony Trollope

#18. A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.

John Keats

#19. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

Erykah Badu

#20. Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?

Toni Maguire