Quotes About Perspective

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.