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Quotes About Observer

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.
~ Doug Stanhope
So my tantrums made good television. They also made me look a fool. The Observer's television critic said that if he ever found himself sitting next to me at a dinner party he would probably drive a fork through my hand. And I don't think he was joking.
~ John Humphrys
We'd prefer to see Faerie driven entirely from the iron world," Jane said, abandoning her pretense of being an observer when the Bunyip stared at her. "And I want Matthew back. Unharmed. He's too useful to be left wandering around uncontrolled.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Não é o espelho que denuncia a beleza. Ela está nos olhos do observador! Não é a maciez da cama que determina o sono, mas a mente de quem dorme – afirmou Marco Polo com propriedade.
~ Augusto Cury
One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.
~ John Tiffany
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
~ Irving Babbitt
We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!
~ George Eliot
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
~ Hermann Bondi
Eden was hardly an impartial observer of the conflict. He is supposed to have told the French foreign minister, Delbos, that England preferred a rebel victory to a republican victory. He professed an admiration for the self-proclaimed fascist Calvo Sotelo, who had been murdered.
~ Antony Beevor
I am not really a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...with the curiosity, the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of person.
~ Sigmund Freud
I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.
~ Joe Berlinger
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
~ Elliot Perlman
Grace leaned against Colin, who was silently watching the lively chatter. That was characteristic of him, actually. And then she realized that they were a pair, a silent, observant couple. Still, in the circle of his arm, she wasn't a lonely observer. She wasn't a wallflower, anymore. She could be herself rather than wishing she was more vivacious, more full of chatter, more like Lily.
~ Eloisa James
Cinicul este spectatorul acestei universale absente. El priveste - îndurerat sau rîzînd — la nimic.
~ Emil Cioran
I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.
~ Kedar Joshi
His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He's a wallflower.
~ Stephen Chbosky
It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.
~ Stephen Hawking
There is no way to remove the observer—us—from our perception of the world
~ Stephen Hawking
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
~ Jon Meacham
and I remain happy being an interested outside observer.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
~ benjamin walter iv
There is no top or bottom, no absolute positioning in space. There are only positions that are relative to the others. There is an incessant change in the relative positions throughout the universe and the observer is always at the centre.
~ Giordano Bruno