Quotes About Perspective

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

Our thoughts determine our age.

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

That's what they do to whatever I was - 19 or something. You're the baby hooker. You can ask any woman my age and we've all played baby hookers.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

You can only be twice someone's age once.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.