Opposite Quotes

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.