#perspective

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#youth #men

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dwarf #perception #perspective #men

The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#perception #perspective #men

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces. ↗

— Kate Morton

#memory #war #perspective

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#clothing #got #impact #know #perspective

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#distance #even #fact #four #go

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#austen #authors #because #best #books

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. ↗

— Anne Northup

#country #i #i think #moms #perspective

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#cannot #issue #perspective #woman

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily