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Quotes About Perception

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.
~ Eugene Mirman
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.
~ Francoise Mouly
In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.
~ Frederick Lenz
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
~ Gary Cole
(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
~ Gayle Forman
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
~ George Eliot
Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.
~ George Farquhar
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
~ Gertrude Stein
I know what a good movie is.
~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?
~ Grace Slick
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.
~ Gus Van Sant
After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
~ H. L. Mencken
There's no good guys and bad guys.
~ Hal Holbrook
Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.
~ Harry Reid
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.
~ Henry Rollins
Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.
~ Hugh Herr
Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?
~ Isabelle Holland