Quotes About Perspective

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that's never what I wanted.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

It's not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.