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Quotes About Perception

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
~ Erica Jong
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
~ Bill Watterson
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
~ Dave Barry
I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.
~ Jimmy Carr
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
~ S. E. Hinton
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
~ J. K. Rowling
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
~ Adam Carolla
If only faces could talk.
~ Pat Summerall
Frailty, thy name is woman!
~ William Shakespeare
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
~ George Mikes
I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.
~ Alicia Silverstone
There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling
~ Robert Breault
Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
~ Mordecai Richler
I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.
~ Chelsea Handler
I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old
~ Rooney Mara
Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.
~ Rita Rudner
Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.
~ Francesca Woodman
I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.
~ Claudia Gray, Evernight
Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.
~ Jase Robertson
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
~ Ashley Scott
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
~ Jeff Ross
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
~ Chic Murray