Quotes About Perspective

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.

I realize that we have to be both male and female many, many times. We have to be balanced, thus we cannot keep coming back to learn our lessons as the same sex. We have to know what it is like to experience both viewpoints.

There are beings that we consider not very spiritually evolved. That does not mean they are negative.

Man must believe in something, even if he believes there is nothing.

Then we decided that our failure to understand something does not necessarily mean it is without merit.

Fear is an illusion of this world and that's all it is.

His career is irrelevant. He can change if he chooses. We'll support him in whatever he chooses. He wraps himself too much in the emotion of his circumstances to see what is plainly before his face.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.

What's scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right.

How hard it can be to keep an eye on what's important, not be distracted by confusing patterns. Better to get out of the shadows . .

Quanti anni era trascorsi dalla sua prima messa su quella stessa tavola posata su due casse? Cinque sei, sette? Come tenere il conto del tempo in un universo senza passato né futuro? In un mondo in cui la vita di tanti uomini è racchiusa nell'attimo di sopravvivenza presente.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.