Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Gillian Flynn

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

Gillian Jacobs

I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.

Georges Braque

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

Gary Zukav

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Christine McVie

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Christina Ricci

To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research...

Jen Lancaster

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

Jena Malone

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

Gary Numan

We have heard projects with some of the writers, who we've been in business with for a long time at the studio, that we've heard as a studio - often, pitches that are still in their formation stage where we or the writers have wanted our input on developing them. We've probably heard more pitches with the network hat on. Certainly all of the outside pitches are that way, and many of the pitches that have been in great shape coming out of the studio we've heard from a network perspective.

George Carlin

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

Felicity Jones

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

Holly Near

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Ian Bogost

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Fred Durst

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

David Rosen

These differences are not significant from a forecasting perspective.

You have to keep it in perspective: We're still 1-4. We haven't really done anything but won one game,

The transition from our perspective is going smoothly overall.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

Shepard Smith

That is perspective. That is all the perspective you need.

It's important to keep a sense of perspective, but we can and should do better.

Jared Dudley

It's real sad and it just puts things in perspective for life.

I'm sure the other teams are thinking they made the difference, but from my perspective we made things too easy.

James Hillman

From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.

James Dobson

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

James E. Faust

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

James E. Faust

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected.

Eva LaRue

If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.