#opposite

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#career #just #opposite #people #really

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it. ↗

— Michael Buble

#be different #because #big #different #fame

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#art #down #getting #opposite #something

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#body #care #good #good health #health

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#failure #most #opposites #people #process

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on. ↗

— John Gray

#extinction #humans #the-coast-opposite-of-humanity #unsaved #life

Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it. ↗

— Josh Weil

#life