Quotes About Perspective

The politically committed are like football fans. They support their side come what may and refuse to see any good in the opposing team.

I wish we all didn't have a story. –Karen

My journey was like the one in the book. That is the thing about books. You take their journeys with you. You came home with something more than just the remains of a fish. The book was never about the fish.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Every wall has two reasons for existing.

That word doesn't have any fuckin' meaning for me. In this life, some people are just less mad than others. That's all.

Looking back on my childhood now, there's a sort of glow to my reminiscences. It's like my memory has blocked out most of the bad stuff. I just remember all those glorious sunny days and good times. You need to have good memories from your past. You never know when you're going to have to depend on those memories just to see you through a bad patch in your adult life.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1

A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Clearly, our communication skills were still troublingly nonexistent. We left the restaurant with diametrically opposed views of what had been decided.

I went to see his show at Earls Court, and found the experience had an astonishingly depressing effect on me. The first half was made up of Floyd numbers and gave me the impression of being a (rather elderly) Peter Pan at the nursery window – that was my part being played by someone else. In retrospect this one event probably had as much to do in galvanising me as anything else. I realised I could not quite so easily let go and watch the train roll on without me.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord

We are all matelots of perception – our sails adjusted consequently.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

You can change things by looking," Papa said. He showed me this with a coin. "Look at it this way," Papa said, showing me the round, flat side of the coin, the one with the king's head on. "Easy to see immediately what this thing is. It's a coin! No doubt about it. But look at it this way," and he moved the coin end-on, so it seemed a thin strip of grooved silver. "Not so easy now, is it? Remember, Mhairi, things don't always come with labels on.

Older people were immigrants in their own country. They had not been born to the idea of rapid change, not like us.

Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.