Quotes About Perspective

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

For when a box is shut, you cannot tell what it might contain, so you might as well say it contains everything, because, really, it could contain anything, see? But when you open it, you affect what is inside. Observing something changes it, that's a law, nothing to be done.

Is it really a cage if it's the size of the world?" "Yes," said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

We've made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.

You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.

We can't go back, not ever, not even for a minute. We are so lucky. Life is so good. We're going on and being alive and being shitty sometimes and lovely sometimes just the same as we always have, and only a Fuckwit couldn't see that.

You come and go, vanish and appear. You miss years that go by for us, and we miss years that go by for you. We never know when we will find you again, or if we will. You meet us out of order, and sometimes I'll be older and sometimes you will be because that's the kind of story we're in. It's all jumbled up on the outside, but it all makes sense in your head. It all flows the right way in your heart.

That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I was, but not always, not so. When the world was good enough in my sight, when it behaved as wildly and gorgeously as I always knew it could, I told the truth of it.

She wasn't angry. You can't get angry just because the world's so much bigger than you and you're stuck in it.

This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.

Actors are liars. Writers, too. The whole lot of them, even the horn players and the fortune-tellers and the freaks and the strongmen. Even the ladies with rings in their noses and high heels on their feet playing violins all along the Pier and the lie they are all singing and dancing and saying is We can get the old world back again .

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.

It's a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you're the protagonist, but really, you're just backstory.

A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it." A

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country." But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.

Do you think, if Columbus had stood on the bow of his ship, looked at the New World and understood everything to come, all the disease and death and betrayal, all the ugliness, all the blood - do you think he would have embraced it, called it paradise?

why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

But it is my experience that you learn everything in this world out of order. You only know what you needed to know after it's already done getting ruined all over you.

Lebedeva snapped her fingers. "It's like lying!" she exclaimed. "Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.

Quando alguém está a viajar, tudo parece mais luminoso e mais agradável, o que não significa que seja mais luminoso e mais agradável, significa apenas que o lar terno e aprazível sofre em comparação com lugares desconhecidos aprimorados, com tudo o que têm de melhor à mostra.