Quotes About Perspective

life is a jelly donut. You don't really know what it's about till you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best t-shirt.

you see what I'm saying? Mooner said. Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent to pay. No food bill to sweat. Free dental plan. And that's worth something, dude.You don't wnat to stick your nose up at free dental.

Once again, the key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

I don't want a new man. I'll be dead someday, my mother said. And then what? You'll wish you had someone. I have a hamster.

It was so much easier when I was young. You got a boyfriend, and you married him. You had some kids, you got older, one of you died, and that was it.''Jeez. No true love?' 'There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

There's a difference between having maturity and being mature. I'm not ready to be mature. I don't want to see the AARP magazine in my mailbox.

His can of pepper spray was bigger than my can of pepper spray.

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time rolling on the ground with men who think a stiffy represents personal growth.

I'm short. I have to think tall.

My feeling is if God wanted me to pick up dog poop he would have made it look like diamonds and smell like roses.

I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom.

You made the paper again, Grandma said. And the phone's been ringing off the hook. Your mother's in the kitchen, ironing. My mother always irons during times of disaster. Some people drink, some take drugs. My mother irons.

Probably Ranger wouldn't even mind that I was here. After all, he's slept in my bed and used my shower. Of course, I was in them at the time.

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt. My

Like I said before, kids were okay from a distance, but I didn't think they'd ever replace hamsters.

Women grow up wary, and men grow up thinking they're immortal.

How we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected or do things merely co-occur? It's all in how you think.

key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

I rolled my eyes so far into the back of my head I saw myself Thinking"- Stephanie Plum High Five

Stephanie Plum, master of rationalization. Believe whatever the moment calls for.

figure you gotta have the right attitude about this stuff. Take Dolly, for instance. Dolly was gonna try to keep her lunch date, which is a good thing, because life gotta go on. And even though he was dead, Dirk sort of looked like he was smiling.

You had a strange childhood." "Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood.