Paul Simon Quotes

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

You can't control where you are born, and when you're growing up, until you've seen something else, you're just living your life.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

What darkness to you is light to me

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Moral: It all depends.

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

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.