Quotes About Perception

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

History is the distillation of rumour.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

History is not what happened but what is written down

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.