“In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.” WorldNeedsRealThreeBlackWhiteNumbersAchieveEffectsPaperExtremesMediumsToneGrayReal WorldLarge Numbers Author:Stan Smith
“I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.” PeopleWarSeemsTodayWantedStarsBlackOfficePaperWindowScriptsExtremesCoveredCovered Up Author:J. J. Abrams
“On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!” BlackWhiteEternalHatredExtremesMoodSwingsRegulationNormAdorationFreezeDisregardWhimAccusationMoscow Book:Only One Year Source: Only One Year
“Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.” ImportantIdeasSometimesLightBlackSpaceEnvironmentConditionsAspectTestsFundamentalsExtremesHolesShedTime And SpaceTheoreticalLaboratoryExoticAnalyzingBlack Hole Author:Brian Greene
“In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.” MenBlackWhiteSituationStruggleRichOne ThingTraditionDemocraticFinalsExtremesGesturesHesitationPoland Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.” IndividualBlackRacismExtremesAtmosphereAmerican SocietyIndividual Life Author:Margaret Walker
“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?” FirstsPlayAbleSoundBlackDifferencesWhiteEmotionMusicColorPicksDown AndNotesPaintGuitarExtremes Author:Les Paul
“If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different” IfsKnowsLittlesDifferentWould BeTodayBeautifulBlackRiskWorstDressesExtremesStoresExpensiveDepartmentWorst ThingsPurpleEccentricBuyersDepartment Stores Author:Alber Elbaz
“It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.” ThinkingMeanBlackPresidentExtremesArticlesAmerican HistoryReally Mean Author:Bill Maher