Quotes About Perspective

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war — because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.

...lyrical poems, deriving from everywhere and nowhere as is the case with all poetry...

Democrats think the glass is half full; Republicans think the glass is theirs.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

Some days my prayer is a rainfall of tears, other days the sunshine of joy, and sometimes it's a sheltering umbrella — but no matter what I'm weathering in my life, my prayer is first and always the infinite horizon of gratitude.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

Quotations can be a comedy or a drama, tell of the whole world or just a small piece of it.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow while looking for that pot of gold.

I look back on it as if through rainbows, the bit of sunshine hers, the tears my own.

The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age.

I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.

REALITY, n. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck.