Quotes of Perceive - somelinesforyou

“ I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ”

- David Hockney

“ Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ”

- Rabbi J. Gordon

“ Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product. ”

- Michael Eisner

“ I don't recognize my own neighborhood. ”

- Studs Terkel

“ He sees only night, and hears only silence. ”

- Jacques Delille

“ Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. ”

- Henry Lawson

“ He would want us to feel like it's a celebration. ”

- Tony Oliva

“ One understands only in proportion to becoming himself that which he understands. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. ”

- Thomas Beecham

“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ”

- Willa Cather

“ The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. ”

- Confucius

“ Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. ”

- Edward Steichen

“ Man knows much more than he understands. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ I liked things better when I didn't understand them. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full. ”

- Joe Karbo

“ And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or Ia don't have some love for some part of it. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. ”

- Miguel de Unamuno
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