Quotes About Perspective

By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Now, many directors could and would say, So what? It's just a movie. You don't have to believe in giant monkeys to direct King Kong.

The directions say to add milk and butter, but Cliff thinks if you can afford to add milk and butter you can afford to eat something else.

Y si en vez de planear tanto voláramos un poco más alto?

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.