Quotes About Perception

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.