Quotes About Perspective

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.

Could be worse ... could be raining." - Igor

Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad if you have a sense of humor.

I always thought a rich lie is better than a poor truth:

Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing. Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad if you have a sense of humor.

I think Peter Falk had one real eye and one glass eye, and having one eye was probably better for shooting pool than having two.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

megérthetem, hogyan m?ködik az olvasás, és miért van az, hogy ugyanazok a szavak valakit meghatnak, másvalakit hidegen hagynak, megint mást pedig egyenesen zavarnak

Why do you always think the sky is falling? Maybe the sky is calling, not falling.

My very precious and relentlessly literal child, it's religion. It doesn't have to make sense.

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?" "Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.

But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.