You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.
I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.
I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.
When I met you it was magic. . . We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.
With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
The opposite of nature is impossible.