Quotes About Perspective

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. In other words, if you were meeting all these people at a party you might have one frame of reference about them but once they were in a work of literature you might find, much to your surprise, that you had quite another perspective.

I do know happy marriages, including mine. But why write about something like that? I can't imagine writing, without irony, about people who are happy all the time.

I'm always amazed by my friends who were reading Samuel Beckett back when I was reading Wonder Woman. I didn't think about books much in those days. I took a creative-writing course in high school, but only because it allowed me to skip gym.

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

When we came in she had her chair sideways, without even looking up to know that it was us, that the doctors had said that sitting and staring at the snow was a waste of time; she should get involved in something. She laughed and told us it wasn't a waste of time. It would be a waste of time just to stare at snowflakes, but she was counting, and even that might be a waste of time, but she was only counting the ones that were just alike

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward." "No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me." "That you know of.

If you look at the photograph...and read: `Skunk Cabbage - a plant with thick roots, wide leaves, and disagreeable smell,` you will not want to look at the cabbage itself. But if you get down on your knees and study it (holding your breath), you will find a pattern of delicate lines, curling shapes, velvety shadows, and fresh beauty.

We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other's pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But

Don't be daft, lad. I've worked with more loonies than you've had hot dinners. And I don't just mean the offenders.

Generally making myself indispensable. I was ambitious in those days. It seems ridiculous now.

Perhaps fear in the abstract is worse than facing the immediate reality.' Vera had still seemed preoccupied by morbid thoughts, but her voice had been cheerful. She probably wasn't afraid of anything. Joe hadn't bothered answering.

A tad jealous. She didn't have any personal experience of happy families.

That was the trouble when you got obsessed with a case: you lost perspective, saw everything through the prism of the investigation.

Oh, a sense of humour,' Vera said. 'I do like a sense of humour in a villain.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.