Percipient Quotes & Sayings

You can think of a thread as an actual, physical piece of thread that strings together a sequence of instructions. In my mind, the instructions are marshmallows, because marshmallows are delicious. — Daniel Higginbotham

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature."
She looked at him questioningly.
"Where would Romeo and Juliet be?"
"Alive. — Julia Quinn

Writers, like priests, should have compassion ... and a sensitivity to pain ... — John Geddes

Join the Revolution! Be your own Brand of Sexy! — Susan L. Edelman

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

That's the thing," Jo says. "You think you know what you're in for. I mean, you tell yourself that, of course, it's not going to be wine and roses and all of that bullshit for the rest of your life, but then, one day, you wake up, and your fucking husband has morphed into someone whom you barely recognize. And you sit there and you stare at him while he scratches his balls through his underwear at the kitchen table, and you think, 'This is totally not what I signed up for. I mean, who knows if I even love this ball-scratching, foul-breathed man?' And then you wonder if you love him more out of habit than out of anything else." She chews the inside of her lip and considers. "And I guess from there, all bets are off. — Allison Winn Scotch

Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji. — Totaram Sanadhya

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it — Ibn Taymiyyah

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world. — Pat Nixon

I'll do what I can. This is my way of living like a princess! — Rika Tanaka

The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as a part of it — Erwin Schrodinger

I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen. — Rex Smith

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. — John Desmond Bernal

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive. — Joan Miro

My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite. — Rachel Hartman