Quotes About Observation

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he'd react, but he'd seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife . . .

I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.

One morning when he was about thirteen, Den and I were in the barn doing the before-breakfast chores. I was in the milking stall, Den in the driveway. He must have been thinking about Maury, for after a while he said, Dad, Maury Telleen is not very tall. Did you ever notice that? Yes, I said. And probably I was about to tell him he should mind his manners, but he wasn't finished. He said, But you never think of him as a little man. Did you ever notice that? Yes, I said. I have noticed that.

We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever.

You'd have to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow.

Loving the forest, you enter it to walk and watch. As you observe its manifold and comely life, it enters familiarly into imagination, and so into sympathy. By sympathy the mind in the forest is made at home.

But it seemed to me that even if everything had been changed, I would have recognized it by the look of the sky.

Just so, an honest poet who is making a poem is doing neither more nor less than making a poem, I distracted by the thought even that it will be read. Poets, or some poets, bear witness as faithfully as possible to what they have experienced or observed, suffered or enjoyed, and this inevitably is instructive to anybody able to be instructed. But the instruction is secondary. It must be embodied in the work.