Douglas Wilson Quotes

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Everything contains its antithesis.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Ideas never quite exist for him until they have been pitted against something else.

It is in this area Winston, that there is likely to be some disagreement between you and me.

I disagree that I'm on the wrong side. I'm just not on your side.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in light, where we are means nothing without the comparison to the other place - where we are not. And thus it is the difference between them that tells us who and what we are.

Our music contradicts our look.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.