Quotes About Perspective

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.

Hay que joder para vivir y no vivir para joder". Quien así hablaba, con tan sobria moral era -naturalmente- una prostituta. Sirva de ejemplo a respetables damas, críticos literarios, policías.

Turning death and destruction to new ways of seeing and being is the best offering we can make to those we have lost.

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind.

Dont worry if he prefers someone else to you. Its hard to teach a monkey strawberries are sweeter than bananas.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?

They look around the world and think: 'There must be something better!' But there isn't. Sorry, chum. This is it. What you see is what you get. Only the here and now.

you see everything as though your eyes are going to lapse into tears.

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS.

Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.

Y comprendió que muchas cosas que había dado por sentadas, muchas cosas que creía sencillas y domésticas, eran en realidad verdaderos lujos.

he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.