Quotes About Perception

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not so bad."

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.