Quotes About Perception

Hope clouds observation.

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

We live on the leash of our senses.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

That tastes like hope feels.

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.