Quotes About Perception

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

I never said most of the things I said.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

He must have made that before he died.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Ich fand nirgendwo so viel Kindheit wie in der Deutschen Sprache. Schmatzen, schnaufen, schluchzen, schlürfen: Viele deutsche Wörter klingen wie Onomatopoesie. Für die Neugeborenen klingt vielleicht jede Sprache so wie Deutsch für mich.

Do you understand what I have not said and what you have not heard in this room that does not exist?

I want to see a doctor, I said. He beamed. But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea. I want to see a less capable doctor.

I need to be blinded, Valya. I was wrong, Valya ... I thought the emotions had perished -- love and devotion and tenderness, but it's all still here, Valya ... Only not for us, all that's left for us is envy and more envy ... Poke out my eyes, Valya, I want to go blind ...

What could be poetic in a pigsty enveloped in so many curses?

It's okay to be eccentric, as long as you are rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

dyslexics often have a great sense of proportion. They make good sculptors.

Patagonia's authenticity lies in not being concerned about having an image in the first place.

Behind every good politician is a soft, cuddly teddy bear

All kinds of daily interactions would be altered if we suspended our insufficiently informed conclusions over why others act the way they do.

Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.