Quotes About Perception

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

Men see what they are most afraid of.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.