Quotes About Perception

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

If some baboons just happen to be good at seeing water holes as half full instead of half empty... we should be able to as well.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that.

I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

By granting 4 million undocumented immigrants social security numbers that can potentially be misused through loopholes in our tax code and voting laws, President Obama is poisoning the waters of public perception and reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos and all immigrants.

As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

The whole 'Muddy Waters' title is not about things look or how deep it can get or it can be. It's just the slouchiness of the album.

If you look at the statistics, it's a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.