Quotes about Perception

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

My first paintings were of my dreams. They were more real to me than the reality I was living in--I didn't like my reality. I remember waking up, and the memory of my dreams was so strong that I would write them down, and then I would paint them, in just two very particular colors, a deep green and a night blue. Never anything else.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.