Quotes About Perception

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.