Quotes About Perception

It's the rare man (even among supposed metrosexuals) who can so satisfyingly acknowledge the details of your outfit the way a woman can.

Algunas personas dicen que vivir el momento produce cambios en sus percepciones visuales. Ellos ven las imágenes con mayor nitidez; los colores parecen más vibrantes. Sus acciones e incluso aquellas de las personas que lo rodean contienen mayor significado.

If a white child appeared dull, he and he alone was thought to suffer from a lack of intelligence or a deficient education, but if a colored boy appeared dull, the entire race was deemed unintelligent.

He refuses to sell his paintings and writes NOT FOR SALE on some of them. He is furious because people are writing about his ghetto childhood and call him a graffiti artist and primitive. They don't invent a childhood for white artists, he says.

Jean was black and had to present himself as separate from graffiti somehow. Keith was gay and white and could glamorize graffiti in a way that Jean could not. Jean and Keith both understood this.

This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

Rita could find fault with a twenty-one-gun salute in her honor. "Too noisy," she'd complain. "All that gun powdah makes me cough." Bernice, on the other hand, was overjoyed when a salesman from the cremation place informed her that her ashes would weigh about six pounds. "Thin at last!" she shrieked.

Not to make sweeping generalizations about men, but I can pretty well guess how this conversation would go down. Jack: Everything okay? You seem down in the mouth lately. Maxime: It is fine. Jack: Okay, just checking. See ya.

I see women married to good men, shitty men, philandering men, boring men, alcoholic men and they all think there's someone different out there who would have been better for them.

Omigahd," she laughed again. "You are such the after shot now. You look so, so New York." Youaaare such the aaaafter shaaat naaaw. Michigan. This state has been sponsored by the Letter A.

It infuriated me that men could walk around feeling perfectly good about their appearance whether they had a unibrow, triple chin, or skin flaps hanging off their eyelids, but stunning women like Faidra felt the need to have an unblemished butthole. The world is insane. Not

no more pep talks about believing in toads, Liza said. Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them? Bonnie said. Thats frogs, Liza Said. Entirely different species.

I'm gonna have to get my eyes checked. I can't see crap until it's right in front of me

She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.

I'm thirty-four. You don't look thirty-four. That's because I'm not married. Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman.

Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.

The problem wasn't that Stephen was a fathead and Virginia was a gossip. It was that Stephen was a driven fathead with a large conservative following and Virginia talked to everyone.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

So I've been sexy all these years? Why hasn't anybody noticed?" "Because you dress like you hate your body," Cal said. "Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it.

Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot.… Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON

Daisy knew about proportion from art class, but she knew about men from life.