Quotes About Perspective

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Let's not be miserable when we win. There's definitely people in places that, even when they win, they're not happy. That's sad.

There are so many beautiful locations in Rajasthan, so many beautiful locations in our India that have not been explored. Foreigners come and explore such places, but we fail to see those locations with that perspective.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a place of industry anymore.

I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.

My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.