Quotes About Perception

How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

If nothing else, wolves are masters at decoding intentions.

Time is relative. Now is absolute; the only time we can ever truly be.

One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

What is new to modernity is a rate of the obsolescence of truth...

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1

A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.

Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.

Lily did have her .22 holstered under her toggle coat, which unnerved Bryan. He was a flatlander originally--a Masshole, even--so always seemed vaguely panicked at the very concept of a well-regulated liberal.

Listening back to 'Arnold Layne' now, and other songs from the same phase, I notice that I do not find myself cringing. I am definitely not embarrassed by our juvenilia. It all sounds pretty professional, even though it would have been recorded relatively quickly. With a limited number of tracks, you had to make decisions early on about which instrument would go on which track and then you mixed down. But the music genuinely doesn't seem to have suffered.

Clearly, our communication skills were still troublingly nonexistent. We left the restaurant with diametrically opposed views of what had been decided.

A far more taxing problem for David was establishing himself within the existing band. Officially he was the second guitarist and additional vocalist. But Syd saw David as an interloper, while the rest of the band saw him as a potential replacement for Syd.

We also gained an insight into how the rest of the music business viewed us when Alan Price raised a laugh at our expense by banging the reverb on his Hammond organ and announcing that this was psychedelic music. At the time we were mortified, probably because all our mums were in the audience; any sense of resentment has nearly worn off.

To be fair, what looks like conspiracy often turns out to be bureaucracy.

There may well be no deliberate deception involved, just what is known as confabulation, where a subject becomes talkative, in an attempt to fill any awkward silences.

Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord

That's it?!! You threw a blanket on her? She's not invisible, you dumb bitch!

Your date might be a psychotic sorceress from a dimension ruled by chaos-- doesn't mean she's not a nice person

Jennifer's smiling! She must be feeling sick or something!

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

We are all matelots of perception – our sails adjusted consequently.