Quotes About Perception

People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.

It wouldn't be believable to show an elevator stuck for five minutes in the U.S. today.

The less you know, the more you believe.

You'll see it when you believe it.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Nobody believes me, but to be honest the pressure is not something that I feel.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.