Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

It's an either/or world now.

Either you're a hater or a lover.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

You're either reading a book or you're not.