Quotes About Observation

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.