Opposite Quotes

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.

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.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

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.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

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.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of 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.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.