The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.

He didnt tell me how to live he lived and let me watch him do it.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.