Apperceptive Quotes & Sayings

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. — Anousheh Ansari

Mr Dawson stopped me. "Remember, Jude," he said, "don't dream it, be it. — Raziel Reid

Shit. You've gotta be kidding! Didn't you jump your first day here?"
"Second"
Luke threw his arms up. "That makes so much more sense. So, you know the guy two days and what? He says jump and you say how high?"
"Actually, it'd be how far." I motioned my arm to show him. "You have to jump out."
"You're not helping!" He growled. — H.R. Willaston

Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head. — Scott Snyder

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
I lie in bed beside my little sister, listening to the singing in the yard. Life is transformed, by these voices, by these presences, by their high spirits and grand esteem, for themselves and each other. My parents, all of us, are on holiday. The mixture of voices and words is so complicated and varied it seems that such confusion, such jolly rivalry, will go on forever, and then to my surprise - for I am surprised, even though I know the pattern of rounds - the song is thinning out, you can hear the two voices striving.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Then the one voice alone, one of them singing on, gamely, to the finish. One voice in which there is an unexpected note of entreaty, of warning, as it hangs the five separate words on the air. Life is. Wait. But a. Now, wait. Dream. — Alice Munro

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas. — Marty Rubin

The only mainstream American household I know well is the one I grew up in, and I can report that my father, who was not a reader, nevertheless had some acquaintance with James Baldwin and John Cheever, because Time magazine put them on its cover and Time, for my father, was the ultimate cultural authority. In the last decade, the magazine whose red border twice enclosed the face of James Joyce has devoted covers to Scott Turow and Stephen King. These are honorable writers; but no one doubts it was the size of their contracts that won them covers. The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority, and an organ like Time, which not long ago aspired to shape the national taste, now serves mainly to reflect it. — Jonathan Franzen

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. — Jacques Pepin

Drop of good water and hope of good life can change your life 360 degree. — Rajesh Walecha

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented. — Dan Phillips

The Henderson brothers never fell for a girl before, but they dont't know if they're on their heads or their feet anymore. I think they're going to make you a pipe bomb for Christmas. — L.J.Smith

One has to do something new in order to see something new. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Pictures must be miraculous. — Mark Rothko

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. — Italo Calvino