Quotes About Perception

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

Ara, sol i expectant, torno a percebre la plenitud del temps, com el ressò potser desmesurat d'una campana que puntua les hores amb un toc remot i displicent d'indiferència.

I ara torna la lúcida tristesa, una mirada fonda i vehement que no vulnera límits i reposa en qualsevol objecte.

He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.

Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.

Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable.

The snap judgments we make about people are remarkably valid.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Don't feel ashamed, girl," she said, answering my thoughts. "The truth is a noble grail to seek. But if you're after it, you must imagine, first, what it will mean to get it. The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself." She nodded resolutely. "I'm proud I told Jackson the truth. I'm glad he died knowing who he was.

The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.