Quotes About Perception

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Remember, about thirty-six years ago you and I met a girl named _____? She was symmetrical and well spoken. Not only that, but her father owned a chain of liquor stores, and she was reported as conveniently nymphomaniacal. Yet, as I recall, neither you nor I especially wanted her phone number. Maybe she was too wondrously neat, or maybe she was too predictably available, or maybe she gave the impression of being so vastly prized that we couldn't prize her at all.

Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is probably reeking with hypertension, cancer, haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.

Men, they have the two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, you fix him the burrito. —Rosita Rivera, who was well acquainted with politicians and men

Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.

Beauty is only skin deep, but who gives a shit what's under their skin anyway?

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.

I don't care what Cosmo says about exercise improving sex. Some things aren't worth the cost.