Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Troy Aikman

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

Walter Lippmann

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

Voltaire

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

William P. Young

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Holbrooke

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

Richard Dawkins

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Al Franken

I don't know why they did it and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Marlon Anderson

I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.

Vaclav Havel

I can imagine this is something that will last quite a while,

E. Helm

I can imagine no better qualified person to serve as the first U.S. secretary of state in the 21st century,