Quotes about Perception
I'm from Texas, so we used to wear our pants starched down like a cowboy. So when I got to New York, to New Jersey, everybody was laughing at me like, 'Look at his pants! His pants could stand up by themselves!'
- Stephen Jackson
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
- Amy Grant
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
- Ronald Reagan
One picture is worth 1 000 denials.
- Ronald Reagan
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
- Ronald Reagan
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan
It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.
- Lydia Millet
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
- Lysa TerKeurst
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
- Madeleine L'Engle