Quotes about Perception

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.