Quotes About Perspective

When we were little, our parents couldn't tell us apart from the side or the back, they had to look at us straight on.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

I feel sorry for straight people.

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

You kinda say, 'Well, straight people don't have to come out.' I understand now that's not necessarily the right way to look at it.

I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.