Quotes About Perception

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.