Quotes About Perception

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

The older I get, the faster I was.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.