Quotes About Perception

It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

As a Rose absorbs the nutrients it feeds on and as it thrives to see the sun as it must to survive...... the Rose becomes more beautiful and in turn will provide sunshine to those who can behold it's beauty. Fortunate is the Man who can see the Rose within a Woman. Blessed is the man who this Woman holds to be her nutrient, her sunshine.

Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do not know the Absolute Truth, but what I argue in this pages is a feeling of this tear that is my life, a feeling on this world that will disappear just as it appeared, maybe in fire and ashes or in steam and tar.

No Universe can be INDEPENDENT of man and cannot be created outside the man as long as the man knows it!

Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can't see

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

If life gives you lemons - make grapejuice. Then sit back and let people wonder how you did it.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

The trouble with bein early is that nobody's there 2 appreciate it but then again if ur late everyone's there 2 be unappreciative

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I'm not a blonde!! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!