Top 30 Juxtaposition Quotes

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

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.

I had seen the ballet of ‘Swan Lake‘ as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this bad boy attitude and a softer, more emotional idea.

We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.

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.

It’s been a real sort of juxtaposition in my life because I’ve gone from wrestling for the past 15/16 years to this new role where I’m essentially running a wrestling company so, during the week, where I used to train and work out and go tan, now I’m working 24 hours a day.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

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!

The juxtaposition of India and Australia is such a great one to explore.

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.

Whenever I do a play, there are ‘Star Wars‘ fans at the stage door, and they’re always lovely – so excited and so effusive about the storylines and the characters. When you’re doing something really serious, and the ‘Star Wars’ fans are waiting outside, it’s a nice juxtaposition.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It’s that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

There’s something about America’s sweetheart and America’s bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

I like how powerful fashion makes me feel. I live for that grungy-prissy juxtaposition that Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Drew Barrymore wore in the ’90s.

There’s an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music.

When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I’m feeling something I want to portray, which is often being sad, lonely. But as soon as I’m starting to make something, it’s when I’m the happiest. Ever. I think that comes out at the same time, so there’s that juxtaposition.

I’ve always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It’s amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it’s just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, ‘I feel like a dude,’ but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It’s exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.

I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.

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.

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.

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.

My mother – it’s not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things – she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

Juxtaposition is interesting to me.

It’s an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that’s not as direct.

I’m always trying to find ‘connections‘ between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.