#contrary

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary. ↗

— Thomas Middleton

#dreams #ever #ground #know #upon

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. ↗

— Jan Morris

#on the contrary #petty #profound #smallness

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. ↗

— Walter Salles

#coming #contrary #film #i #imperfection

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#back #back to school #contrary #doing #goes

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #comfortable #contrary #feels #film

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#contrary #iraqi #kurdish #no-fly #people

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. ↗

— Kate Adie

#armed #contrary #danger #escort #even

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#among #art #artists #best #contrary

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. ↗

— David Douglass

#appealing #contrary #facts #how #hypothesis