Quotes About Perception

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

People always think something's all true.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know—listen to me, now—don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?… Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

People never notice anything.

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all.... It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

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The Party member may physically reside in the United States, but he "lives" in a communist "world.

People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

I don't want to destroy too many illusions. We're walking a tightrope. If you fall on one side it's no good, because we're showing too much. If you fall on the other side it's no good, because we're not showing anything and we look like arrogant jerks.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.