Juxtaposition famous quotes

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Matter #Juxtaposition #Deals

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Doubt #Juxtaposition #Prophet

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Gestures #Juxtaposition #Affection

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.
-- Common

#Justice #Juxtaposition #Enough

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
-- Corita Kent

#Artist #Connections #Juxtaposition

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Juxtaposition #Elements #World

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
-- Learned Hand

#Juxtaposition #Pebbles #Aliens

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Fishing #Juxtaposition #Touring

The joy of juxtaposition is endless.
-- Peter B. Lewis

#Joy #Perception #Juxtaposition

My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.
-- Ruth Ozeki

#Mind #Juxtaposition #Odd

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.
-- Solange Knowles

#Hip Hop #Juxtaposition #Hips

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.
-- Tibor Fischer

#Cities #Way #Juxtaposition

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.
-- Sarah Barthel

#Thinking #Juxtaposition #Contrast

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.
-- Tairrie B

#Jesus #Juxtaposition #Freak

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.
-- Thighpaulsandra

#Style #Juxtaposition #Pops

What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.
-- Pattiann Rogers

#Mind #Juxtaposition #Attention

Cities are about juxtaposition.
-- Richard Rogers

#Cities #Juxtaposition

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.
-- Robert Heinecken

#Juxtaposition #Aspect #Visuals