Quotes About Perspective

At 38, I look back at my 32-year-old self and regret that he wasted time. Then I regret wasting my current time regretting regrets about regrets. This is pretty sophisticated regretting I'm doing. That's the sole advantage of ageing: I can now effortlessly consolidate my regrets into one manageable block of misery. Otherwise, by the age of 44, I'd need complex database software just to keep track of precisely how many things I'm regretting at once.

I wish I enjoyed the World Cup, if only for some fleeting sense of common unity with the rest of humankind. But I simply don't get it. A huge number of my fellow citizens tune in and witness a glorious contest of ecstatic highs and heartbreaking lows. I see twenty-two millionaires fucking up a lawn.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra. Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down .

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

you will never find a rainbow if you are looking down

life is a tragedy up close, but a comedy in long-shot.

Reynolds a renunÈ›at la dimensiuni È™i l-a întrebat pe Einstein dac? el crede în fantome. Einstein a m?rturisit c? el, personal, n-a v?zut niciuna È™i a ad?ugat zâmbind: - Când dou?sprezece persoane vor fi martore ale aceluiaÈ™i fenomen în acelaÈ™i timp, atunci am s? cred È™i eu.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician

In the end, everything is a gag.

and if you haven't lived through it, you couldn't possibly understand how it was.

What they didn't realize is that it was my world they were getting ready to go out into. I had been making my way in it since before they were born and had some things to say about life after cutting the apron strings that could prove just as beneficial as anything they had gotten out of their books.

Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining.

But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

He said if a tree fell down in a forest, and there was nobody there to hear it, would it make a sound? I think what he meant was that sounds only become sounds when we hear them, otherwise it's just waves that go through the air. So if there were no ears there to pick up the sound waves then is there any sound at all?

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.