Quotes About Perspective

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

There are all different kinds of ways to define a family, and we have to take that into consideration when practicing family law. The law, they say, is always the last thing to change.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said "Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even."

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

I have to keep reminding myself that being famous on earth would be nice but I would rather walk the red carpet in Heaven.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.