Quotes About Perspective

Everything was always something, but something—and here was the rub—could never be everything.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

The ones who fight each other because of their own beliefs are like specks of dirt fighting each other about the nature of their world, refusing to see that they are all in the same mud puddle on the side of the road.

Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

It is good to know, no matter how long I am gone...you do not grow up too much.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

I will see you again , is one of the names for blue-- A color beyond the human sky of mind-- One third up the ladder of blue is where we sit for grief--

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.

I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.

Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing—first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it—and, oh dear, there's just the one way out.

As if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.

P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know. Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it. Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

A jury is as bright as the dumbest member of the jury