#contra

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. ↗

— Josef Albers

#curious #heart #just #optical #painting

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #contract #exact #hundred #label

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Ted Allen

#audition #been #casting #catch #chance

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' ↗

— Woody Allen

#asked #contraception #girl #i #me

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#contract #dollars #five-year #go #industry

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections. ↗

— Marek Belka

#coming #contrary #course #down #expect

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#about #bed #book #computer #computer screen

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. ↗

— William M. Daley

#daley #mayor #most #people #rich

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical