Quotes About Perception

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.

Fear makes a cub sound like a lion.Faith makes a lion sound like a cub.

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

You have to learn the difference between a man's looks, and how fine he shoots. They've never been one and the same.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.