Quotes about Perspective

Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.

Not real can tell us about real.

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

That way nobody feels exploited." "Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?" "I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

The living bird is not its labeled bones.