Richard Roeper Quotes

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that. All contradictions of his notes suggest the harmony.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Disorder brings about order.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Balance is balancing.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him

Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.