Opposites Quotes
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?
Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.
True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.
Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.
Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as...well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.
In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.
When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?
What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.
Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!
When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.