Jena Malone Quotes

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

There's a billion and a half Muslim experiences. All I can give you is my one weird, self-examining perspective.

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

You can call it ugly if you want, but I'd call it a win.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.