Quotes About Perception

Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.

I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.

What earth is this so in want of you they rise up on high to seek you in heaven? Look at them staring at you right before their eyes, unseeing, unseeing, blind.

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart I asked, 'Who are You?' He replied, 'You'.

At the king's landing stage, the heads of stone beasts swim in the water, and so do their own shapes, the shapes of gentleman, their forms broken by ripples, and the everted queen flickering like a flame in a glass; around them, the dance of mild afternoon sunshine, and a flood of birdsong.

Redheaded people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren't really there.

On entend souvent parler du "poids des années"... Foutaises ! Le temps nous vide !

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.

only 3 per cent believed that governments worked to improve their lives.

Era, encara que no ho semblés, molt més llest que jo, perquè sempre són més llestos aquells que estan disposats a prescindir del nostre consentiment.

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

Yo bien conozco esta sociedad mexicana que se traga bueyes y se escandaliza con un mosquito

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of

No creo en eso de vivir el momento, Molina, nadie vive el momento.

el amor que late en las piedras viejas de esta casa ha hecho un milagro más: el de permitir que, como si fueran ciegos, no se vieran el cuerpo sino sólo el alma».

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.