Quotes About Perspective

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Masculine and feminine stories cannot have the same ending.

Sve budu?nosti imaju jednu veliku vrlinu: nikad ne izgledaju onako kako ih zamišljaš.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.

Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

God isn't dead. He's just getting a second opinion.

Money can't buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more places.

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer)

It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.

At this point in the course, everyone in the room despised Akiko, but suddenly he admired her courage to think so differently and to suggest such a difficult truth. He felt lucky to be at a university and not in most other settings, where the person in charge was always right. Nevertheless, until he really listened to Akiko disagree with the professor, he had not thought for himself fully, and it had never occurred to him to disagree in public.

Etsuko grew silent, utterly transfixed by the realization that how she saw herself was actually how her children saw her, too. They thought she was a monster.

But in general, he avoided discussions about religion. There was no way to win them anyway, he thought, why bother. Whichever side you fell on, you had to conclude with the statement « I believe... » rather than « I know. ».

I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God.

I thought that no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean. —Park Wan-suh

Su hermana mayor solía decir que los hombres odiaban la compasión; en lugar de eso querían empatía y admiración, una combinación que no era fácil.

people from islands are different. We have more freedom.

And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.

We rate experiences as good or bad;even when its the latter, we learn from them.Therefore all experiences are good.

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.