Quotes About Perception

I don't," he said bluntly. "But I saw that fiction"—he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous—"is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy.

appealing than truth and rationality. The words

Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she's fifty.

shades of brown and gold, and if I did say so myself, it fit me like a glove.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Yes," he said softly. "I know about him. It doesn't

She had seen Brianna's face for a moment in the light; white as paper and hard as bone, with the eyes black holes. Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil. Lizzie was a town lass, born long after Culloden. She had never seen the wild clansmen of the glens, or a Highlander in the grip of blood fury—but she'd heard the auld stories, and now she knew them true. A person who looked like that might do anything at all. She

How little you know of women, my love," I said.

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

incongruous that he laughed. And then realized that there

Slightly shorter than the common height, Grey found himself at a disadvantage in crowds.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

she became aware that

I think the woman's side has been much better in Asia.

I think Asian men are beautiful.

I'm short. I'm so Asian.

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

I want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the goal was never to look less Asian.

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

There's a reason I'm on a show called 'Younger,' because I still think... in every aspect of my life, I'm five or 10 years behind in my mind.

I had to prove that I could understand other aspects of human beings and not just little fat girls.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?