Quotes About Perception

I was like a little boy playing war, yelling, Bang, bang! Gotcha!, and looking up to see a real Sherman tank rolling right at me. It

Alana looked down her nose at Deborah. Naturally, from her great height she would have to, but there was more to it than that. She gave Debs that look of condescending amusement that only the Brits can really master, and said, "What would you like it to mean, Sergeant?" And she made "sergeant" sound like some kind of funny insect, which was not lost on my sister. She blushed.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

His level of sophistication didn't jive with Slam," said Tony Gervino, the magazine's editor. "He wasn't particularly cool; he was very polished. Slam was never polished. We were the opposite of polished.

Rommel was convinced that the mind of the British commander was his enemy's greatest weakness.

I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.

Rhyme couldn't remember what he looked like. From his voice he sounded fit and athletic, but then Rhyme supposed he himself might seem like an Olympian to someone who couldn't see his destroyed body.

Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it's also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy

Everyone stared at me now. I'd studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing texts. Mostly for the fun of it, but the subject came in useful sometimes. Ellis

Maree may have noted that I said "wife" and not "ex," which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested. She frowned her sympathy, which I didn't respond to.

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.

didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's

shark you don't see is always more dangerous than the one you do.

Prewar." It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people's minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike America for the past eighty years, Italy had not regularly dotted the globe with tanks and infantry and drones. Thom

Jeffery Deaver

Then I notice, about a hundred yards away, to my right, a tall, black metal fence and, beyond, some buildings.

What's your name?" "Stu." He eyed me carefully. "You were asking some things? In the store?" His statements were inflected as questions. I

They look like wounds, not tattoos.

What good is it to perform anyway? The audience sits there like logs, they cough and sneeze, they don't dress up anymore. Do you know what it's like playing Brahms for people wearing blue jeans and T-shirts?

Charlotte McKenzie was present. No longer saddled with her fake role as a diplo, she was wearing black slacks, a dark blouse and a supple leather jacket. She was still grandmotherly—but she was a grandmother who might practice tae kwon do and enjoy white-water rafting, if not big-game hunting.

Jeffery Deaver

He was not good looking, by any means, nor was he tall but these conditions were not troubling to him. Physical flaws were significant only to those with egos.

Confused?" "Not really. To be confused you have to be paying attention.

Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it's because of religion? No. It's because otherwise no one can stand to look at them!