Quotes About Perceptive

Freeman flicked him a quick glance. It was one of those looks that seemed to burn a hole right through him. Barry shivered, not liking those eyes on him. They were intelligent, focused - almost too focused. They didn't blink, and it felt like death looking at him.

If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan.

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

The malefactor becomes the creature of his own deeds. Once the transition has been overpassed a new set of standards comes into force. The perceptive malefactor recognizes his evil and knows full well the meaning of his acts. In order to quiet his qualms he retreats into a state of solipsism, and commits flagrant evil from sheer hysteria, and for his victims it appears as if the world

malefactor becomes the creature of his own deeds. Once the transition has been overpassed a new set of standards comes into force. The perceptive malefactor recognizes his evil and knows full well the meaning of his acts. In order to quiet his qualms he retreats into a state of solipsism, and commits flagrant evil from sheer hysteria, and for his victims it appears as if the world has gone mad.

You like him? I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him. You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.

People might think that I'm inaccessible, unapproachable, and dark. In many ways, my characters are uncomfortable to interact with, but that's not me.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.

New Yorkers are smart.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.

She was a well-traveled and worldy mole, this Sibyl

Someone was high or brilliant or both.

for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.

You're really smart.

People who make no noise are dangerous.