Quotes About Perception

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.' So do girls, Miri thought.

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

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Parents always think they know so much about their kids when really, they hardly know a thing.

He's really fat.

my father. "Oh, it's so quaint," she said. "Isn't it quaint

Ralph arrived first. He's really fat. And he isn't even four years old. He doesn't say much either. He grunts and grabs a lot, though. Usually his mouth is stuffed full of something.

It's very foolish to laugh if you don't know what's funny in the first place.

Miri liked to think of her as Corinne. She liked thinking of all the adults in her life by their first names. It made them seem more interesting, less like parents and more like regular people with stories of their own

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

Republicans hire exterminators to kill their bugs; Democrats step on them…. Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere; Republicans form censorship committees and read the books as a group…. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans hang theirs on the wall…. Republicans tend to keep their shades drawn, although there is seldom any reason why they should; Democrats ought to and don't.

And it felt like I was a black - and - white photo magically rippling into color wherever he touched me.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.

She looked at me in a troubled sort of way, the way I look today at people who rave about the food at Applebee's or the Olive Garden.

He looks out on a raging battlefield and sees error everywhere, and he thinks he can find the truth by avoiding error. —Lerone Bennett, "Tea and Sympathy: Liberals and Other White Hopes," 1964

Haalaat chup kara dete hain insaan ko wagarna bolna sabh ko aata hain

Soch kesi hain emaan kesa hain lafz bata dete hain insaan kesa hain

Breasts and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.