Quotes About Perspective

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

See, every thing in show business is a lie. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. You are in situations where you are forced to think that you are better than everybody else because of the pedestal the fans place you on. It's a lie. This is just a job, a high-profile job. You have to keep that in perspective and not get caught up in the hype.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

When you look at the Earth's horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it's not even the thickness of an orange peel.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

Obviously, you want to get adoration from fans and people who consume what you do, but also getting that from your peers goes a long way. That's how I keep my perspective. I feel really fortunate.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.