Quotes About Perception

Rick's dream, though he seldom described it as such, was to someday tell a story so good that the people who heard it simply wouldn't want to kill wolves anymore.

The science was on Smith's side, but it didn't seem to matter to ranchers and hunters, or to state legislators. The debate wasn't about science anymore, if indeed it ever had been.

When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.

was right. His much-vaunted mind had done

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.

I've been accused of being a Jesuit. I am not a Jesuit. I'm not even sure how one would become a Jesuit. It seems like a lot of work. It isn't one of my hobbies.

No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not.

Elke zomer worden de oude mensen kleiner terwijl de kinderen groter worden. Volgens Josh is er maar een bepaalde lengte beschikbaar op aarde en verwisselen de centimeters alleen van eigenaar.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

Expletives danced entire ballrooms through my skull.

His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect--not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

The hand of one person may express more than the face of another.

It is often instructive to take the woman's, the private and domestic view, of a public man; nor can anything be more curious than the vast discrepancy between portraits intended for engraving, and the pencil-sketches that pass from hand to hand, behind the original's back.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.