Quotes About Perspective

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth.

I could have told her that if something is disappointing I know it's not nothing because nothing is not disappointing.

If you're wiser it doesn't make you happier. One of the girls in one of your movies said something like, ' I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

People are sleeping in pyramid-shaped spaces a lot now because they think it will keep them young and vital and stop the aging process. I'm not worried about that because I have my wings. However, my ideal

Focus can change literally everything.

Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

It's not so reasonable, Emmie, to believe you know everything about everyone's life. So how can you be disappointed at something that happened so long ago. You're angry because you know you have no right to be angry.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things...

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Grief can have its own weightage. What is worse? The loss of a parent or one's own child?

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

To what extent does time distort memory>

A calamity, a catastrophe- it changes everything, doesn't it? It makes you aware that you cannot be indifferent toward your life. You cannot simply give away your life.

But before that, before the farm went bad, Alphonse remembers being happy. He didn't know it was happiness and couldn't have put a name to it then - in fact he's pretty sure he never even thought about it - but now he knows that it was happiness.

You know, Honora says, you read a word like massacre and you think, I know what that means. It means the slaughter of innocent people. And then you go on. You read another fact. You read the word trial. Or conviction. But then....when it happens to you, when you live the word, you realize that the word itself means nothing. It tells you nothing at all. It doesn't begin to convey the horror, does it?

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If we think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.