Quotes About Perception

The irony of Hank Williams' relationship with the Opry is that some Opry stars were on the show for forty, fifty, or even sixty years, but Hank Williams remains the star associated in most people's minds with the Grand Ole Opry, despite the fact that he was on the show for only three years.

Hank's self-defeating conduct stemmed in part from his perception that he was being marketed as a commodity.

quite the same thing. It is like an overwhelming clamour on the senses. 'Jenao

Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

There's a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.

when im really into a movel i'm seeing the world differntly during that time- not just for the hour or so in the day when i get to read. i'm actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book aand looking at everything through a different prism.

The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.

You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*. [she gestures to a field of daisies]

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be glorious birds.

Still, I believe that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who know they are this"—she held the daisy in her hand—"yet let themselves be treated as that

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend.

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.