Quotes About Perception

If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.

I know it looks like Burt walks through his movies, but he doesn't; he works hard to make it look that way, and the work is tough.

Anybody who comes to Stockholm in the summer for the first time and walks around the city at night must think that we're weird.

Until we change our perception of a BAME person's capabilities, in all walks of life, we will be given less opportunities and less time to succeed.

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

If someone had asked me when we started 'Bonanza' what was Ben Cartwright like, I couldn't have articulated very much.

Ben Carson's either the angriest person in the world or the calmest.

Do I drink in public? Certainly I drink in public! Ben Cartwright wouldn't, but I do.

To watch a game from the TV, it's very different from the bench.

I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.