Quotes About Perspective

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

We're all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I'm concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

Myself when young did eagerly frequentDoctor and Saint, and heard great argumentAbout it and about: but evermoreCame out by the same door wherein I went.

That inverted Bowl we call The Sky,Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die.

Mrs. Browning's death was rather a relief to me, I must say; no more Aurora Leighs, thank God!