“Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.” SkyColorWallRedOppositesHarmonyExtremesBrilliantSoilHarshOrangeCrudeSlopesTilesGreeneryCobalt Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.” MenWayMeanUseCertainNamesRedOppositesTradeFishesConservativeContraryTricksPityRadicalDestructiveCategoriesSwearSuperficialDeceivedListen To MeMisuseTaintedStingyDescribe Myself Author:R. A. Lafferty
“The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.” KindRedMy FamilyOppositesHandleNegotiationRangers Author:Mark Teixeira
“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.” ShouldUseNamesSimpleObjectsDrawsRedDecidedOppositesObviousColourYellowPurpleDon't Change Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.” WantHomeStuffHusbandDaughterRedOppositesShirtsMakeupMy DaughterMy HusbandT ShirtCarpetRed CarpetSlugsUnassuming Author:Viola Davis
“The millennial that lives in a very red state might not even realize that their congressman thinks that they have no constituents that feel the opposite of what the president or they are doing. This is the time to step up and push back.” ThinkingFeelsStatesMightPresidentRealizingStepsRedOppositesStep UpConstituentsCongressmanMillennials Author:Marty Walsh
“It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.” LooksEyeBeautifulSportsChurchRoomsTreeRedWindowOppositesWake UpBlueCleanFingersWideForestsHillsPleasantSunshineYellowCeilingsViolinMarbleUnfamiliarFlingFlorenceTilesPinchingBassoon Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed her legs. I didn't need a mirror to know my whole face had just turned red. With a hemline up to her thighs that gesture didn't leave anything to the imagination. Bones curled his fingers around mine and squeezed. His hand was still warmed from our contact moments ago. That's how fast he had to grab me again to keep me sitting where I was instead of yanking off my jacket to make her a pair of panties.” KnowsNeedsStillsWholeMomentsFeelingsHandsFacesLeftImaginationMinesSittingRedOppositesMirrorsDown AndFingersLegsBonesContactChairsPairsGesturesSuperiorityJacketsThighsShort LivedPanties Author:Jeaniene Frost
“And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.” WorldMovingBlackThis WorldRedOppositesGreenPressesRoundsCommandButtonsRed And Green Book:Too Loud a Solitude Source: Too Loud a Solitude
“Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.” NeedsFirstsCountryWhitePartyHealingRepublicanRedCriticismOppositesBlueRoseGlassesUsaDrowningColored GlassRed White And BlueRose Colored Glasses Author:Bill Maher