Quotes About Perception

Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.