Quotes about Perception
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
— Peter Mullan
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
— Samuel Johnson
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
— Samuel Johnson
I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.
— Stephen Colbert
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
— Kathleen Norris
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
— Laurence Sterne
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
— Mark Twain
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
— Mark Twain
Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.
— Moby
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..
— Mark Twain
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
— Mark Twain