Quotes About Observation

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity

It is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker-on.

Here are two chairs; let us sit down and see the smart people go by.

It is this type more than any others whose style it is to stand by another person (or plant or animal), with no intention to influence it, criticize it, or change it-perhaps not even to interact with it-only to be in its presence.

she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

Presently, I was aware that Jeeves was with me. I hadn't heard him come in, but you often don't with Jeeves. He just streams silently from spot A to spot B, like some gas.

I could not but feel that it was ironical that the old relative should have spoken disparagingly of fawns as a class, sneering at their timidity in that rather lofty and superior manner, for he himself could have walked straight into a gathering of these animals and no questions asked.

It was a fine cow, as cows go, but, like so many cows, it lacked sustained dramatic interest.

She gazed at Berry with stolid affection, like a cow inspecting a turnip.

The gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is, as the poet indicates, vouchsafed to few men.

A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

In my ten years of teaching I've noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.

I don't like the way he looks at you." My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?" "Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher.

Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i didn't think it was the right time to mention his unforunate and obvious fashion impairment.

Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

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Heath was still Heath--cute, but not the brightest Crayola in the pack.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. ... Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself.

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.