Quotes About Perception

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

When you're a kid, helping an old lady across the street is kind of cute. But when you're an adult, it's just plain creepy.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.

I see myself as a serious artist, but yeah, when people come to my shows, they want to hear 'What Was I Thinkin',' 'Drunk on a Plane,' and lots of up-tempo, fun songs.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

You can put me on a plane now and I can go anywhere and just by talking having one or two conversations I can have an idea where I am in the U.S. or whatever.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.' That's because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams.