Juxtaposition Quotes

• Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

  Learned Hand

  Pebbles, Aliens

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Heart, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Surrealist, Quotations

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Sound, Looks

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Matter, Deals, Sentences

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.225, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Bored, Might

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Dick Morris

  War, Iraq, Events

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• I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Fans

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• Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

  Keith Urban

  Asking, Haiti, Red

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• The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Joy, Perception, Endless

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• Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

  Max Ernst

  Creativity, Reality, Sparks

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• An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

  Robert Heinecken

  Aspect, Visuals, Guerrillas

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• The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

  Pierre Reverdy

  Reality, Emotional, Two

  "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Islands, Space

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• We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Joy, Never Quit

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• The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Order, Answers

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

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• ['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions [and] me and my emotional state.

  Rhys Darby

  Dad, Military, Humorous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Use, Sage

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• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Purple, Style

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• Justice is juxtaposition in us
  Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

  Common

  Justice For All, Justice, Enough

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• I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

  Terry Crews

  Home, Character, Artist

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.

  Chuck Israels

  Music, Drama, Gun

  "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

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• What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Two, Giving

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Creativity, Simple, Ideas

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• I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Fun, Who I Am, Two

  Source: collider.com

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