Quotes About Perspective

Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.

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I simply can't imagine how I hated him so much,' thought Elizabeth. 'It

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube? It's always cubes with you, noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. What's wrong with a nice sphere?

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is If it don't stink, marry it, which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

I am not exuding anything, said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.

How could you...? How? Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead. ... He is really going through with it. No, She managed. There is no other way.

This is what love does, he realized, and in that moment he understood why Artemis had kidnapped a fairy to get the money to find his father. Love makes everything else seem inconsequential

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems? Ah...but did they have mental problems before meeting you? Who's the common denominator here, Dan? I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud.

It was funny how quickly a person's priorities could change. This morning he had been worried about which loafers to wear with his suit, and now all he could think about was the fact that his dearest friend's life hung in the balance, And the balance was rapidly shifting.

Dear Internet: One Billion Hysterical Opinions Do Not Carry the Weight of a Single Fact.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

I am exactly the right age for this project," said Minerva. "I'm young enough to believe in magic and old enough to understand how it works.

one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Maybe you read my article in WooHoo ? I never read press. You start believing it, you see...

There are those who believe that true love is humankind's greatest motivator. Those people are sweet but completely wrong.

Someone old enough to grasp the principles of commerce, yet young enough to believe in magic

The great Stephen King once wrote don't sweat the small stuff, which I mulled over for long enough to realise that I don't entirely agree with it. I get what he means: we all have enough major sorrow in our lives without freaking out over the day-today hangnails and such, but sometimes sweating the small stuff helps you make it through the big stuff.

Wenn ich gewinne, wird man sagen, ich sei ein Genie, wenn ich verliere, wird es heißen, ich sei übergeschnappt. So wird Geschichte geschrieben.