Quotes About Perception

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.

Gimmicks? Here we go again. I'm tired of people sayin' we rely on gimmicks. What is this? The world is nothin' but a big gimmick isn't it? Wars, napalm bombs and all that. People being burned-up on TV...Yes, we do.

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of it.

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Jenny Marzen is who again? Amy knew perfectly well who she was. Jenny Marzen was hot, hotter than Amy had ever been, and Jenny Marzen would be washed up in ten years and didn't know it. And Jenny is my number one fan? No, but she likes you. She read your stories in grad school. What is she, twelve? The point is, she really liked the article, and all that stuff about experience and news. Lex says she says you've got gravitas. That's a dirty lie. I never even had mono.

Gwen: It's not going to work. Paul: Pardon me? Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll still make you wait.

That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn't upset her because it was true. She couldn't. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn't appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda.

Se ninguém entende ninguém, e ninguém nunca entenderá nada, jamis; esta é a prática verdade.

quando é que a velhice começa, surgindo de dentro da mocidade.

I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak , but first ..learn to feel

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and other.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Ten watercolors were made from that star.

These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.