Quotes About Perspective

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.