Quotes About Perspective

I miss being a kid. I got food, clothing, and shelter for free. Grownups only get that in jail.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person." The longer you keep it shining away from you, the more interesting he or she finds you.

grow more by listening than talking.

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state?

My ethic is: 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' You can be as careful as you want, but you're going to die anyway, so why not have fun?

I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

I do... to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I'm alright on that day. I don't believe I've made it–I believe that I'm making it. I believe that I've found my past so that I can live in the present, it's the most important thing to me. The books and the plays and the touring and the gigs and the speeches and the cash...it all pales into insignificance when compared with knowing that I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm going to be okay now.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.