Quotes About Perspective

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

HIV changed my life, but I think I've accepted it. I don't even think about it unless someone brings it up.

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

The main reason women are crazy, is that men are stupid.

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.