Quotes About Perception

You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am!" and those who come in and say "Oh there you are."

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.