Quotes About Perspective

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Christopher Moore

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.' Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.

Pervy and redundant, don't you think? I asked the big gay cop, who wouldn't know a va-jay-jay if it bounced up to him and sang the Star-Spangled Banner. (You ever notice that hardly anything besides the Star-Spangled Banner is spangled? There's no, like, the Raisin-Spangled Scone, or the Flea-Spangled Beagle. I'm just saying.) --Being the Journal of Abby Normal

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Why understand when you can believe?

Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.

He's not dumb, Biff, he just has a talent for belief.

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.

How would I feel if I woke up and she told me that we had done it while I slept? I'd be fine with it. A little sad that I missed things, but I wouldn't be mad. I'd just ask her if I had a good time. Women are different, though.

So I'm like getting some perspective now - like when you're a kid and you think it sucks that you have to eat hydrogenated peanut butter on your PBJ, and then you see one of those starving commercials kids with flies in their eyes, who don't even have a sandwich - and you're all, 'Well, that sucks.

if you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.

Maybe life is just easier if you're a little goofy...

Does a broken heart know from a different location?

Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel.

He reasoned: A well-formed bottom hanging in space is just a well-formed bottom, but you hook up a well-formed bottom to a whip-smart woman and apply a dash of the awkward and what you've got yourself is…well, trouble.)

I didn't do anything. I didn't move a thing, I didn't touch a thing, I didn't change a thing. Believers do everything.

That's it?" Joshua asked, as he hopped off his post and winced upon landing. "Why did we set up twenty posts if we were only going to use three?" "Why were you thinking of twenty when you can only stand on one?" answered Three. "I have to pee," I said. "Exactly," said the monk. So there you have it: Buddhism.   Each

I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec.