Quotes About Perspective

There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

Fiction is an improvement on life

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

I don't think I've ever seen a zombie movie in my life.

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.