Quotes About Perception

Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.

Many commentators on John's life have said that John would never have married me if I hadn't been pregnant. In the film Backbeat I was portrayed as a clingy, dim little girlfriend in a headscarf. Totally wrong, of course. Quite apart from anything else I never wore a headscarf.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.

Looking closer can make something beautiful.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you. Other times it's because they don't want to hear you.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma

Oh, people will think what they think!" Grandma Lilah said. "Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One's own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.

James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life.

I work from a different theory. For everything there's a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you get along better.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years developing instead an intuition. By the time they are fifteen, as I was, they are masters of a kind of clairvoyance that tells them, He is depressed, He is frightened, He is pleased.

kind but distant, she now recognized him as

folks in town already thought she was a few bricks shy of a full load.             "I'm working on it."  Though she couldn't see him, Will's voice was as familiar to her as his face had ever been. He had a beautiful voice: low, with a hint of gravel in the throat. Hearing it now, without the comfort of his physical presence, brought a hollow ache to

The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift