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Quotes About Perception

The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why
~ Jovie Sumner
Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.
~ Warner Fabian, Flaming Youth
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
~ Terry Pratchett
That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...
~ Lemony Snicket
Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.
~ Tana French, The Trespasser
I'm fine, considering I can't walk anymore, " Pam replied, a sarcastic edge in her voice. "You look like your bringing news. What is it this time, I'm blind?
~ C.B. Cook, Paralyzed Dreams
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
~ Michelle Templet
I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch
~ Neal Shusterman, UnDivided
He could be doing quantum physics in his head or undressing her in his mind—she'd never know the difference.
~ Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we're like Donald Duck. An' I think a lotta guys are afraid of that.
~ Jonathan Ashworth, Men & Women
You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what's happening on another planet, but not what's going on inside the person next to you.
~ Graham Spaid, tireless:
Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.
~ Michelle Templet
Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.
~ Carroll Bryant
It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
Is she always like this?" "No, usually worse.
~ Steve Voake, The Web of Fire
So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.
~ Barbara Wright
You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
~ John Scalzi, Lock In
Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.
~ K.R. Royal
When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?
~ Kevin Hearne, Hounded
The easiest way to be the prettiest girl at a party is to rig the guest list.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
They say you can judge a person by their book, but I say they will hide under the covers.
~ Mozaiah Thompson
He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars.
~ Marika Christian, Phone Kitten
Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later".
~ R. Alan Woods