Quotes About Perception

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

I am like a bee attracted by the scent of flowers—no perfume smells sweeter than that of a rose in an English garden. Wear it always,' he urged, pausing mere inches from where she stood, 'never change it, for to me it has become your hallmark, the scent I associate only with you." -Terzan Helios

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.

but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Elizabeth Truss and Nadine Dorris walked into a bar, the IQ of the bar was greatly diminished by this.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

In Athol Fugard's play, The Island, an African eats an orange whole; at the play's opening night in London, the audience sat coolly through the nude scenes on stage, but there were gasps of horror at the sight of a man enjoying a whole unpeeled orange.

In buying "light" food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place, eat less and so measure up to the desired norm, and receive as an added bonus the suggestion that our behaviour is "enlightened.

She thinks you're stalking me." "Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.

Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

I read somewhere that all this - the people, the animals, the mountains, the rivers - is just God dreaming. I wish he'd wake the fuck up.