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Quotes About Perception

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
~ Dave Van Ronk
As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.
~ Norman Hartnell
A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
~ Bill Hader
Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.
~ Mary Docter
my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.
~ Unknown
I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.
~ Janette Rallison
People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.
~ Katie Price
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
~ Ashley Johnson
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
~ Unknown
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
~ Adora Svitak
Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.
~ Tucker Carlson
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
~ Sayed Kashua
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
~ J. D. Salinger
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
~ Jasmine Guinness
My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.
~ Jeremy Lin
I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!
~ Jerry O'Connell
I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
~ Jimmy Buffett
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
~ Joyce Carol Oates