Quotes About Perception

She wasn't pretty, but there were moments when I found her beautiful.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

If you think about it hard enough, if you trace potential reverberations long enough, every step can be a false step, any move can lead to an unintended consequence. Who am I ignoring that I shouldn't be ignoring? What am I not saying that I should be saying? What won't I notice that she would absolutely notice? While I'm out in the public hallways, what private languages am I not hearing?

I think he'll be all sweaty because, let's face it most fat people get sweaty just from lifting the twinkie to their mouth, but tiny is just to fabulous to sweat.

Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing

Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

His features are attractive, but what he does with them is not.

You look about as tiny as Idina Menzel's voice.

Most of the time, I feel like a perpetual smudge. My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

The car can smile all it wants, but that doesn't mean you can see the driver's expression.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. we say we're looking at a person's profile online... and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face... It's never the way you would remember seeing them.

In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There's the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there's the kind of looking that's like slurping a Coke.

Whats up? he asked. Up, I thought. This, I said, looking down at the photo in my hand. Down, I thought.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

All dressed up, we thought we looked so old. Now, of course, we look at the picture and see how young we actually were. We get younger every year.

People in Ohio are late all the time.

it doesn't feel good or bad just a buzz of different.

Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too.

What a strange phrase - not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.