Quotes About Perspective

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

Looking back over our shoulders, the Cathedral looked so big, so strong, like from some movie.

Uno piensa que con el paso de los años se va a volver más sapiente y criterioso, que va a ser como el viejo que le enseñaba a Kung Fu: el sabio. Pero es mentira, con el fútbol estoy cada vez más intolerante y maniático.

De mí se dirá posiblemente que soy un escritor cómico, a lo sumo. Y será cierto. No me interesa demasiado la definición que se haga de mí. No aspiro al Nobel de Literatura. Yo me doy por muy bien pagado cuando alguien se me acerca y me dice: me cagué de risa con tu libro.

no importarían las "credenciales democráticas" del intérprete si cualquiera de nosotros tendiera a leer el derecho del mismo modo.

Stai diventando piccolo, – disse Mattia con fatica. – Vuoi dire che sto tornando giovane? – No, piccolo di statura. Piccolo di misura. Stai diventando un nonno piccolo. – Oh, bene! Ecco perché mi sento così leggero, – disse il nonno.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

A spiritual perspective at midlife helps us to focus on what's really important in terms of feeling more connected to the world in a meaningful purposeful way.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.

I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.' I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.' 'What does that mean?' 'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

Forgive me,' the woman says. 'I think I've interrupted you in a private moment.' 'Well,' I reply, instead of yelling something to the effect of :'No kidding lady, I'm in the bathroom!' 'Were you praying?' she asks. 'Sort of.' 'That's what I thought,' the woman says with a nod, 'which is why I spoke up. I like the idea of answering prayers,' she says. 'Plus, I figure I'm so old, I could have been God's babysitter.

Architecture led to the vanishing point which led to architecture.

Art needs to be imaginatively undressed in order to be appreciated, and so does the world.

I am exalted at the thought that I see through his eyes as well as mine.

I have had . . . easier days. Although in retrospect, this one is not atypical.