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Quotes About Observing

I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.
~ Karen Chance
There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!
~ Herman Melville
But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
~ Herman Melville
Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
~ Alexandra Kotur
The serpent'll have you. He likes tender flesh. I like to watch.
~ Storm Constantine
It's a watch me watch you watching me kind of love
~ Evy Michaels
Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.
~ Suman Pokhrel
It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Meditation is an activity of the mental consciousness. It involves one part of the mind observing, analyzing, and dealing with the rest of the mind.
~ Kathleen McDonald
Observing Ben's struggle, Hi scratched his chin. Glanced at me. Shrugged. Then he quietly slipped around behind Ben. And, without ceremony, kicked him in the ass. Hard
~ Kathy Reichs
During my final London weeks, I'd watched Wolf Hall and marveled at the absolute stillness of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. In an era of all things Kardashian, it was quite astonishing to see such major and with such little movement. In some ways, I'd have killed for stillness and perhaps only being killed would still me. Still.
~ Ken Bruen
It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.
~ Cammie McGovern
Go build me a mansion, build it so high, So I can see my true love go by. See him go by, love, see him go by. So I can see my true love go by.
~ Suzanne Collins
Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have no choice.
~ Suzanne Collins
Susurra: «Puedo encontrarte, puedo llegar hasta ti, quizá te esté observando en estos precisos instantes».
~ Suzanne Collins
I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
~ Nigel Lythgoe
I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish. you mustn't confuse this with ambition.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.
~ Bo Burnham
Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slackFrom my first entrance in,Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,If I lack'd anything.
~ George Herbert
Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing.
~ George Herbert
Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.
~ J.D. Robb
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
~ Amit Ray
What are you doing?" Dengo would ask him. "Observing," father would say. "But how long can you observe the same thing?" "Forever.
~ Neal Stephenson
They stared back at him wide and unblinking.
~ Neal Stephenson