Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“It may be easy to feel detached from happenings not close to us. We are comparatively objective about events and incidents that… — Krishna Murthy Annigeri Vasudeva Rao Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and… — Sanford Biggers Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma - it's in the… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I don't ever really feel guilty about music, quite frankly. When you're younger, you think that anything you don't like, you have… — El-P Copy Share Image
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could… — Howard A. Tullman Copy Share Image
Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You have the management team, coaching staff, film staff, analytics team, training staff and playing team, and you're trying to manage all… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort… — Moby Copy Share Image
From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one… — Dan Severn Copy Share Image
“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
