Quotes About Perception

Julia edged closer, wondering what kind of vocabulary dogs understood. Frederico Fellini, her cat, was an intellectual and she could talk about books and films to him, as long as it was after he'd been fed, and fed well. She had the vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics.

Emily Dickinson calls it 'truth told slant,

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.

Why should we have perfect senses that can directly perceive everything? The big lesson of physics over the centuries is how much is hidden from our view. From

I've been called worse," he assures me, "and perhaps I am guilty as charged. I guess it depends on who is defining what constitutes a lady's man." The statement strikes me as true beyond its intention. How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

We think that if we surround ourselves with people, we can't be alone, when the reality is that we're always alone.

You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I've seen you. I know you.

She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist.

I couldn't know that we'd meet and the world would spin beneath my feet, and somehow ignite a million shades of beauty in my life. I couldn't know that I'd change how you saw, well, everything.

unreadable. "I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden.

I know my limits," he assures him. "You just don't like that I know yours.

Do you feel me the way I feel you, Harper?

The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.

What if your only witness were an animal? Against which you perceive a joyous unfounding. I'm in debt to your radiant obscenity.

Delusion needs an architecture;

Do you ever wish to quit the daily comedy of transforming into the I-speaker without abandoning the wilderness of sensing? The sensation isn't morbid; it is ultimately disinterested.

Tabby didn't mince words when she gave a pointed warning to his fans in the pages of Castle Rock two months after Misery was published: "In some very real way, you, the readers, know this man very well. I would like to suggest that you do not know him at all. In seventeen years of marriage, I am still discovering things I did not know about Steve, and I hope he's still discovering the unknown in me.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

Nowadays people formulate truth; they don't find it.

The everyday Joes, like you and me, a lot of them know nothing firsthand and think they know everything. And they talk-talk-talk-talk and post their opinions all over the Internet and it's loud and ridiculous. It's like we're all in this ship of fools and nobody knows if the boat is even real." Jack looks at me.