Quotes About Perception

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

try thinking the same thing by darkness and see how different if feels.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

It is up to each of us to take responsibility for controlling the way we percieve and react to the world, and learn to adjust to changing circumstances.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. "We used to call that the walk of shame," she said.

My husband's girlfriend worked for an airline, but she was not a flight attendant, like I'd first assumed. She was an actual pilot. I supposed that made it better.

I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?

Look at you—instead of being dressed for success, you're dressed to depress.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.

Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography -- but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.