Quotes About Perception

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

The power of television has nothing to do with its quality.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

what reality is formed into.

I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.

witch. A being born a little different, he preferred to phrase it. He remembered reading something about the Rhine experiments, at Duke University. Some people, those sober scientists had proved, perceived the world with something beyond the ordinary physical senses. Some people, they had demonstrated, displayed a direct control over probability, without the use of any physical agency.

It is in that visionary Madness of the Mind that permits a Madman to perceive Truth in extremis, when all else had seemed lost. Mercifull, indeed, is this worldly Existence, and cruel; and beautifull; and vile, and filled with Pain and greater in its Scale, and in its Depth, and its Complexity than mere Men can ever hope to understand; and profound wonderfull in its Capacity.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

rituals, like burning paper money... all fake, just something we do to comfort ourselves or for others to see.

Wake up, old man. He plans more than a cheat. He plans a hit. I know. I can read it in his eyes.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer colours of the dusk, the green and orange bark, the purple shadows. At times like this Flinty felt her edges vanish, leaving her part of the mountains, like the wallaby pulling wonga vine down from a thorn bush, or the sleepy possum peering from a tree.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

People take you at your own evaluation, or at least the value that you appear to show.

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?