Quotes About Perspective

I want to write a poem about "Truth," "Honor," "Dignity," and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries.

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the late" so and so. I'm sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn't just late—they're not even coming!

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.

I once got attacked by a bearskin rug, two days before it was a rug.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

Traumatic experiences are so powerful that they often affect your entire worldview. It's like wearing glasses that distort your vision.

Don't think a woman can fully understand the power a man feels when he takes." (Witt Long)

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.

Nicky: "19' s probably your last good year. It's all downhill from there...

You can rationalise a baseball bat, but it still drastically changes the shape of your head. Three

People often make the mistake of believing that profound quotes were intended to be all-encompassing. Anti-proverbs, while comical, do not necessarily diminish the insight gained from words of wisdom.

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.

It was funny how he felt more and more generous toward Fabyan by the year. You get older and want to connect to the people who understand. You try to speak with the young and find that something is wrong with your ears. They use their own slang, their own code, and you start to feel nostalgic about your former enemies, who at least shared the same intense moment on earth and spoke words you could understand

Mark Twain nailed it: "Comparison is the death of joy.

Easy is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. "That should be easy for you to do, right?" But notice how rarely people describe their own tasks as easy. For you, it's "Let me look into it"—but for others, it's "Get it done.