Two Contrasting Quotes

#1. I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kunal Nayyar

#2. We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Axl Rose

#3. Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality.

James Key

#4. In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time.

Ayala Pines

#5. I would often invent this dream for myself at the edge of sleep, and then it was strange how content it would make me, how it would make peace and consolation flow, and I would close my eyes and float on it into my real dreams which were never so kind [ ... ].

Alice Munro

#6. As scientists the two men were contrasting types - Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

Chaim Weizmann

#7. I'm just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Twiggy

#8. Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Thomas Browne

#9. Life is worth living but not worth thinking about

Marty Rubin

#10. Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Andrew Michael Ramsay

#11. When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Bayard Rustin

#12. When you lose a loved one, you come to these crossroads. You can take the path that leads you down the aisle of sadness, or you can say, 'I'm never going to let this person's memory die. I'm going to make sure everything they worked for continues.'

Bindi Irwin

#13. My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

Anthony Horowitz

#14. You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#15. The school should teach a class on deciphering obscure images in bad photography. Amanda's photos could make up the textbooks.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#16. The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends

Alain De Botton

#17. Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

Azzedine Alaia

#18. Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

Seamus Heaney

#19. No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Ambrose Bierce