Quotes About Observation

I went up to the terrace again and looked out on the tawny, many-alleyed city. At night it looked carved from brown sugar.

my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.

Though I felt like a voyeur to some kind of disaster, my eyes were riveted to the scene ...

He had the soul of a fortress and eyes that had peered at the world from battlements too long.

My poor boat poked along the waterway with the blinding speed of a manatee.

Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.

I could barely do more than watch the rich tapestry they were of their glances and slow smiles, the words they spoke that said one thing to my father, and another to me, while the ivy, growing secretly all around us, whispered warnings.

The next time you see a dog you'd like to greet, stop a few feet away, stand sideways rather than straight on, and avoid looking directly into her eyes. Wait for the dog to come all the

When first we met, I thought you foolish, inept, and too gullible to work for the Master of the City. But you have grown shrewd, crafty as a cat in your dealings with the Mithrans." It didn't sound like a compliment but I didn't react.

I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

But Carol had not betrayed her. Carol loved her more than she loved her child. That was part of the reason why she had not promised. She was gambling now as she had gambled on getting everything from the detective that day on the road, and she lost then, too. And now she saw Carol's face changing, saw the little signs of astonishment and shock so subtle that perhaps only she in the world could have noticed them, and Therese could not think for a moment.

How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.

She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive.

The headwaiter said something to her in the foyer, and she told him, "I'm looking for somebody," and went on to the doorway. She stood in the doorway, looking over the people at the tables in the room where a piano played.

How indifferent he was to Carol after, all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.

The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk.

When she stood up, the woman was looking at her with the calm gray eyes that Therese could neither quite face nor look away from.

Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.

I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. 'I'm thinking of writing it from the point of view of someone at the hotel who observes her,' I said, but this did not fill me with much hope. Then my friend, who is not a writer, suggested I try it from the omniscient author's point of view.

aside from each other, for a quarter of a century, and an observer who knew them well always used to refer to them as the "pêche melba," adding that they were "only good for mountain

He had qualities, which I had never seen in any other man.

Distrust your first instinctive impression. Our first natural reaction in a disagreeable situation is to be defensive. Be careful. Keep calm and watch out for your first reaction. It may be you at your worst, not your best.

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