Quotes About Perspective

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

WRITER Actors come and go, pal—you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let's not get all precious about it . . .

WRITER So, go on then, get all smart about it—can you deny what I'm saying? Huh? Jesus was not some . . . Indonesian guy! He just wasn't. ACTOR I'm not Indonesian! Jesus Christ!

things get worked through…or work themselves through, we probably don't have all that much to do with it. we like to think we do, though, right?

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's … CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick …