Quotes About Perspective

Paulo disse: "Antigamente eu pensava que todas essas coisas eram muito importantes, mas agora as considero sem valor algum, por causa do que Cristo

We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Mistake number one: don't ever expect a woman to do what you think she's going to do. Mistake number two: don't ever tell her what to do because that's a surefire way of making sure she doesn't. - cowboy John

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.

Je est un autre.

Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Cada día que pasa me parece que mi vida ha sido la justa, y que si tuviera que elegir de nuevo mi propia vida elegiría la que tuve.

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

You gay?" "Oh, I wouldn't say I was gay. I'd just say I was enchanted." "Me too.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

The nature of being a minority is to explain, ad nauseum, how you see the world, assuming the majority can take time away from their own self-indulgence to listen.

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

that ole frog is more together than I am. That frog doesn't want to make movies. That frog hasn't even seen movies and furthermore that frog doesn't give a big damn. It just swims, eats, makes love, and sings as it pleases. Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.

I closed the door forever on idealism and the essential goodness of human nature, and I walked to the Greyhound bus station by the same path that I had taken on my arrival.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself well, that's not going to happen

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.