More quotations tagged with “perception”
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
—Bernard Baruch
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
—Anaïs Nin
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
—Tennessee Williams
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
—R.A. Salvatore
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
—John Steinbeck