Quotes About Perspective

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.