Quotes About Perception

Era típico de uma prostituta arranjar um nome pomposo. Havia alturas em que pensava que a única razão por que as raparigas entravam neste ramo de actividade era para arranjarem um nome novo e bonito.

acts. Looking at Noreen, you wondered why anyone ever bothered to draw or paint anything else but a woman's naked body.

there wasn't much to say about Klaus Hering except that he was about thirty years old, slimly built, fair-haired and, thanks in part to his necktie, getting on for tall.

And wit only sounds like wit when there's someone around to appreciate it.

If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.

Can you imagine how much of existence would be impossible if people didn't believe in a certain amount of luck in the face of all evidence to the contrary? The true essence of human life is delusion. That's what we've got in here. And it's been that way ever since the first Roman soldier blew on a handful of dice. It's simple human nature to believe your luck is going to turn.

Americans were different: even after they'd dropped a couple of atom bombs on the Japs, they still wanted to be liked. Which struck me as just a little naive.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

There's only one thing that unnerves me more than the company of an ugly woman in the evening, and that's the company of the same ugly woman the following morning.

It's the very absurdity of the British which makes them so impossible to radicalize. And why we should envy them.

The man uttering these words had a face like the Golem of Prague and a barrel-shaped body that belonged on a beer cart. He wore a short leather coat and a cap with a peak that grew straight out of his forehead. He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory

YouGov BrandIndex reveals an interesting fact. McDonald's, for example, has 33 percent lovers and 29 percent haters, a near balanced polarization. Starbucks has a similar

The art of marketing is largely the art of brand building. When something is not a brand, it will be probably be viewed as a commodity.

They say eyes clear with age.

Perhaps being old is having lighted roomsInside your head, and people in them, acting.People you know, yet can't quite name.

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

They say eyes clear with age, As dew clarifies air To sharpen evenings, As if time put an edge Round the last shape of things To show them there; The many-levelled trees, The long soft tides of grass Wrinkling away the gold Wind-ridden waves- all these, They say, come back to focus As we grow old. - Long Sight In Age

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

Have I been wrong, to think the breath That sharpens life is life itself, not death?

Yet to me this decaying landscape has its uses: To make me remember, who am always inclined to forget, That there is always a changing at the root, And a real world in which time really passes. — Philip Larkin, from "New Year Poem," Collected Poems , ed. Anthony Thwaite (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989)

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.