Quotes about Perception

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.