Famous quotes containing the words perceived and/or popularity:
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)