Quotes About Perception

Gerhard Richter,

How can I tell?" "It doesn't matter. In this town, all the kids are gifted.

People in South Philly don't spend a lot of time talking about French royalty. Still, I don't want to look like an idiot, so I shovel on more lies.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

We find what we seek and pay attention to

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst. - Scottish proverb

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's all.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

All familiar things can open into strange worlds.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that's more interesting and more fun than reality. That's the definition of being insane, surely?" said my son, Raul "I suppose so," I said. "It's like Don Quixote.

All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

En aquel momento tuve por vez primera la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible.

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.

La gente olvida más deprisa que nunca, quizá porque los periodistas olvidan más deprisa que nunca. Viven al día. No tienen tiempo de mirar atrás, y por eso no entienden lo que pasa delante, ni siquiera lo que pasa delante de sus narices.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso. Es saber, estar al tanto. Los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde".