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“Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.”

Writing Two Play Space Rooms Opposites Paradox Opposing Space Between

Author:Mu Xin

“But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.”

People Persons Desire Rooms Huge Personality Opposites Holes Comedian Overwhelming Overwhelming Desire

Author:Jimmy Carr

“Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

“The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.”

Children Book House Sleep Rooms Air Bed Opposites Clouds Snow Broke Servant Dull Hung Grey Curtains Rawness

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.”

Should Looks Space Rooms Middle Painting Wall Window Opposites Bottom Ceilings

Author:Pierre Soulages

“Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.”

People Knows Rooms Opposites Really Great Venus Complete Opposites

Author:Serena Williams

“People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.”

People Long Together House Hours Rooms Half Opposites

Book:Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

Source: Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

“Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.”

Ifs Should Trying Wells Important My Own Rooms Practice Opposites Realization Alternatives Phrases Routes

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.”

People Thinking Men Way Running Rooms Opposites Sexy Hotel Hotel Rooms Scandalous Promiscuous

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“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.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”

People Feels Persons Two Light Hours Rooms Cities Millions Crazy Opposites Miles Paris Excitement Extras Headings Rushing Every Second Demoralizing

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.”

Knows Men Feels Mean Said Fall Rooms Ready Opposites Lays Falling In Love Attraction Staring Uncomfortable Working It Ready To Leave

Author:James Salter

“Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}”

Long Matter Hard Rooms Arms Kissing Opposites Autumn Cheer Relaxed Roger Babbling

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.”

Kind Different Ends Matter Facts Fun Rooms Violence Tears Opposites Different Kinds Bereft

Author:David Rakoff

“The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.”

Littles Rooms Secret Opposites London Parks Stations Tubes Intelligence Services Secret Intelligence

Author:John le Carre

“It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.”

Knows Two Together Law Simple Rooms Opposites Polar Opposites Two Opposites

Author:Trey Parker