Quotes About Perception

My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.