Quotes About Perception

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

My theory was that if you had breasts, boys wanted to have sex with you, which wasn't exactly a big compliment, since they wanted to have sex any way. Whereas if you had a beautiful face, like Julia, boys fell in love with you, which seemed to happen against their will. Then the sex that you had would be about love.

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

I said, "It's not like that." I wanted to convince her. I said "We think alike." Oh, my dear," she said. "A man thinks with his dick.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

Im summer - in spring, even - it is impossible to believe in November. Snow you can picture, picture-postcard style, but the sodden, rotting tangle where the brazen nettles were, the once-secret nest now stark in the bare branches and above all the sheer dead silence of the sky - these things are unimaginable for the rest of the year.

So do you think there's more to her than meets the eye!" he teased, and Alex cursed herself for being so easy to read. "My guess is she's running from something. "No shit Sherlock", she agreed silently. "Probably a guy. It's nearly always a guy.

one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Sometimes having a good imagination really stinks, Jenna thought.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?

Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.

Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?

People never think things that are true are funny.

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so far away that you didn't care about it? You were floating through space and time, and nothing that happened to you mattered because nothing really could happen to you because you didn't exist?

Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at the same time communicating, 'Hello there, acne-ridden dwarf. Promise me we'll meet again.

W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

Iluzja jest przyrodniÄ… siostrÄ… nadziei i bywa zwykle w pogodnym nastroju.

You say potato; I say potahto...' 'I say integrity; you say deceit.

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.