#opposite

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#even #experience #genuine #how #mean

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#does #exciting #going #inside #me

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#any #bush #country #dare #direction

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#always #course #custom #opposite #take

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#breasts #having #large #makes #men

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#exact #exact opposite #find #opposite #out

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#absolutely #always #amazed #because #i

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#art #believe #close #course #exactly

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

#almost #balance #every #less #opposite