Quotes About Perspective

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

Human societies have always defined themselves through narration, but nowadays corporations are telling man's stories for him.

You're better equipped for this world than I am,' she said. 'I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.

Since moving to New York, she had been gradually abandoning her old ideas about the nobility of suffering.

Only the obtuse are unappreciative of paradox.

So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.

Just as the overturned bucket that was once brimming seems so much emptier than the bucket that never held milk in the first place. Thanks for filling my little pail.

I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.

the greatest geniuses pee and poop just like the rest of us, but that in no way suggests that we are even remotely their creative equal, except perhaps in the confines of the toilet.

for while we must go forever in despair, let us also go forever in the enjoyment of the world.

They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

There is no death. There are only different levels of life.

The economic world, the world of the equities markets, just seemed like a perfect foil, the ideal backdrop against which to contrast this story about legendary amphibians from outer space, because everything these days is all about money. In this book (Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas) I'm hoping to illustrate that there not only are far more important things than money, but there are far more interesting things. (from NPR Interviews edited by Robert Siegel)

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. However, Leigh-Cheri and Bernard were occupied with the nuances of an intricate dance, so let's be generous and cut them some slack.)

She was even grateful at first for this backdoor entry into the New York art scene, although rather quickly she came to think of it as entering a peacock through its rectum.

If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that anyway you turn them they are sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that anyway you turn them they are scrambled.

That's the value of artists, isn't it? Even when they aren't aware of it, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers.

human reality is often simultaneously somber and funny.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. —Karl Popper, philosopher of science (1902-94)