Quotes About Perception

Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.'

I'm not from Philly - I'm from South Jersey, but we still consider that the Philly area.

People in Philly are always late.

The more disgruntled the white people are, the happier they are to see me, that has to be it. I do really well in Boston, I do really well in Cleveland, I do really well in Philly, Jersey, certain parts of Florida. Places where there are really really aggressive white people tend to love me.

Look, I spent six years in Philly. And for the longest time, I thought there was nothing like Eagles fans. Until I got to Buffalo.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.

It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.