Quotes About Observation

In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it.

La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.

No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?" "No reason," the Spaniard replied. "It's only that I just happened to look back and something's there.

Worse, he died. Mr. Shog, I mean. (Don't ask how you could tell. It was easy. One morning he just stopped sweating, so there it was.)

Whether an observation is significant depends on what theories one already accepts.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

An artist is, of course, entitled to make money, and Brando didn't claim otherwise. What he struggled with was the conflation of art and commerce, a phenomenon he first observed in the 1960s and watched mushroom beyond all expectation into the twenty-first century. "I don't know if there are any artists left now," he said. "They are so degraded and so confused by the mercantile mind.

had taken it upon herself to sit through as many of the devil's entertainments as she could tolerate, cataloging every sin.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

our experience is what we attend to

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Some years ago Professor Patrick, of the Iowa State University, kept three young men awake for four days and nights. When his observations on them were finished, the subjects were permitted to sleep themselves out. All awoke from this sleep completely refreshed, but the one who took longest to restore himself from his long vigil only slept one-third more time than was regular with him.

Hitler, always at his best when he detected weakness in an opponent

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

I share the streets with aimlessly moving scraps of paper and little whirlwinds of dust, with motes that pass like erratic thieves under eaves and through doors.

Stated most simply, New Death is the condition whereby human corpses now lie always on a horizontal vector—no matter the angle of the surface or the substance of the matter below them—and now orient so that their feet are facing all observers, all the time.

The early years of a Bes (and presumably an Ul Qoman) child are intense learnings of cues. We pick up styles of clothing, permissible colours, ways of walking and holding oneself, very fast. Before we were eight or so most of us could be trusted not to breach embarrassingly and illegally, though licence of course is granted children every moment they are in the street.

I CHECKED MY WATCH and glanced at the sky, which seemed resistant to morning.

I have mixed feelings about zoos. Some days, it makes me sad to see animals in confined habitats, under constant observation by an alien species. Other days, I see the amount of care and love provided by the zookeepers; I remember how dangerous the wild is, particularly for endangered animals. I tear up a little when I see a kid staring at some weird creature from another continent – I know that kid is going to learn everything about that animal, and love it, and fight for its survival.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

?ôi khi ch? c?n nhìn vào l?ng m?t ng??i ta ?ã có th? ?oán bi?t ngay ???c tâm tr?ng h? ra sao, có nh?ng c?m xúc gì ?ang di?n ra trong lòng h?

Where I come from in the Eastern Region, life is still -- well, things are changing very fast but if one is interested, one can still see signs of what life used to look like.