Quotes About Perception

Does blue have a smell?

It was almost as if they were afraid the grass would grow so tall around us we'd never get out. Some people say you can actually see the grass growing. You can certainly hear it, an endless whispering. Sometimes, you can almost make out the worlds.

Beautiful is mysterious. It tells us that there's so much more than what we're seeing or learning. And that's why we're drawn to it. Because we want to know the part we're not seeing or hearing.

There was something very strange about the way he was super-polite to us, and then turned raging-beliigerent to invisible people on the other end of the phone, What he was shouting looked an awful lot like the kind of stuff that couldn't be fixed-that the people on the other end wouldn't forgive.

I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt.

People who've never been out in the grass don't get it. I didn't understand what Jamie was talking about until I stood in the middle of a furrow, looking around at this very narrow world, a shadow valley with only a strip of sky above to remember there's a horizen somewhere.

Captain Skyler thinks Councilor Layton is always trying to divide people so he can control them, but Councilor Layton says that Captain Skyler wants to keep everybody in one place so he can control them. It's an argument I'm not sure I understand.

After all, show me a man who dislikes being raped slowly and enthusiastically by a hotblooded gorgeous Irish colleen, and I'll show you a man with a problem.

In deploring spin while also desiring it, Barack Obama is like the rest of us. We denounce spin when we see it as misleading. But we embrace spin when we see it as leading.

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

Blue jeans are hot in the summer and cold in the winter. They are not the dumbest clothing in the world, but the fashionable folks who insist on wearing them are not exactly the brightest brill in the ocean.

For the chronically illiterate, a photo-op is worth much, much more than a thousand words.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you?

at the same time he knew that most elderly people were not wise at all but only wore a thin veneer of cheap wisdom as a sort of armor against the world.

The Army isn't what it used to be," I lamented to General Cushman one day. "It never was," he replied.

Hearing is when the sound reaches your ears and listening is when the sound reaches your brain.

It is important to note that while goods are consumed, services are experienced.

As the chapter on relationship building suggested (Chapter 5), we must find ways not only to be credible, but also to give the client the sense that we are credible. We must illustrate, not assert. Why

while most providers sell on the basis of technical competence, most buyers buy on the basis of emotion.

In the late twentieth century, national television broad-casters are trained to use the accent of Salt Lake City—the American equivalent of BBC English.

When one southerner was asked why so many people were killed in his region, he answered that "there were just more folks in the South that needed killing.

the world was created this morning. No such thing as the past …

Edward   Once they're dead, I find they keep changing. You think you've got hold of them. And it's like you say, 'Oh I see. So that's what she was like.' But then they change again in your memory. It drives you crazy. Now I'd like to find out just who she was.