Quotes About Perspective

Reading is, by its nature, a strategy for displacement, for pulling back from the circumstances of the present and immersing in the textures of a different life.

If we frame every situation in terms of right and wrong, we never have to wrestle with complexity; if we define the world in narrow bands of black and white, we don't have to parse out endless shades of gray.

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.

Life often looks its best from a distance.

Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.

Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.

People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

In her opinion he was an intellectual who had consciously decided to see the world in a positive light,

Maybe a few fabulous drawings were nothing as compared to being able to ask for a glass of milk, or exchange a few words with a friend, or a father. What did he know?

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

IQ-ul nu înseamn? mare lucru, spusese el într-un interviu. ?i Goering avea un IQ mare. Po?i fi idiot ?i a?a.

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

Kelly's mother was a bitch and her father was run over by the motor home when he chased a squirrel into the street, but I figured that was more information than my mother needed to know.

If the strength of our feelings was in proportion to the events that provoke them, the world would not be the place it is

You never feel more American than when you leave America.

Yra tokia istorija apie žmog?, kuris buvo blogai aptarnautas ir pasak? pardav?jui, kas klientas tur?t? b?ti karalius. Klerkas n? nemirktel?j?s atsak?: Monsieur, le roi est mort ("Pone, karalius mir?s").

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels that Europeans attained in the thirteenth century could almost certainly have been achieved more than three centuries earlier had they been included in the Muslim world empire.

i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that.