Quotes About Perception

Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds

so he proceeded with great caution into an alien landscape of the mind and the mind's eye.

I told you but you didn't hear me. You hear what you want.

In her daily company he found himself also ceasing to value these things that seemed so important to the white world.

They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.

We spend our lives in worlds remote from one another. We imagine we all live together on this round earth but we do not." Samuel

Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's the only gift that does not keep on giving.

As high school approached, the boys wanted to kiss us and touch us, and the girls became a group of benevolent queens dispensing favors. The more the boys wanted us, the more powerful we became. When a girl chose to bestow her favors, the lucky boy was envied and celebrated. Slut shaming? What's a slut?

Evie always said it didn't matter what happened to you, only what you thought about it, and then what you did about it.

there were different kinds of beautiful and the right man would find her the right beautiful for him.

She nodded thoughtfully. "Well, I've found men will believe almost anything when their blood is flowing away from their brains.

What is the big deal about a couple of legs anyway?" Fyn looked at the medic. If she didn't know, he couldn't explain it.

Fantaseamos lo que no entendemos...Las situaciones que menos se comprenden excitan el inconsciente

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do .

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture.

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.

Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.