Channing Pollock Quotes

Size counts. That's all.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Time is the only commodity that matters.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.