Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Latifah

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Judy Woodruff

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Mark Haddon

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Marisa Tomei

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

Rabih Alameddine

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Nhat Hanh

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Patti Smith

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.

Neal A. Maxwell

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

Lizzie Brochere

It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

Michael Dolan

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Michael Dell

The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.

Melissa Auf der Maur

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Marianne Williamson

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Mark Victor Hansen

Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

Nicholas Brendon

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

Mireille Guiliano

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

R. C. Sproul

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

R. C. Sproul

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

Preity Zinta

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

Oprah Winfrey

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Olivia Thirlby

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Lev Yilmaz

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

Paul Cellucci

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

Paul Cezanne

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

Irvin D. Yalom

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

Husain Haqqani

The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United States helped arm and train Mujahideen against the Soviets during the 1980s, but Pakistan chose to keep these militants well armed and sufficiently funded even after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989; and, from the American perspective, Pakistan's crackdown on terrorist groups, particularly after 9/11, has been halfhearted at best.

J. K. Rowling

Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

Nathan Fillion

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

Kathy Bates

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

At first we were irritated. But then you have to realize you have to keep things in perspective.