Quotes About Observation

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

A big fly came down also and settled on a leaf close to her face; he had two round brown knobs on his head and at that range looked enormous, a prehistoric animal that had roamed the jungles of a forgotten world. First he stood on four front legs and rubbed the two back ones with sinuous ease up and down his wings, then he stood on the four back and rubbed the two front ones like an obsequious shopkeeper.

Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

He came early, unwisely as, had he come later, there would have been a better audience to watch his arrival; however, to his untutored mind perhaps this was a matter of little importance.

Comme dit Kinglake : un examen si minutieux qu'il finit par placer un objet sous un angle de vision mensonger est un plus mauvais guide qu'un rapide coup d'oeil qui embrasse les choses dans leurs justes proportions.

I saw them before you were born. I came here first in 1900. [Reporter: "Do they look the same?"] Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over. 1943, NIAGARA FALLS.

we must observe the march of Facts. Over stony roads, through the defiles of thorny and rock-clad hills, across ochre deserts baking in the sun, the weary, sullen caravan of Facts kept pertinaciously jogging along.

During this period I usually managed to take two afternoons a week in the areas under attack in Kent or Sussex in order to see for myself what was happening.

It proved conclusively the great accuracy of naval fire, provided good observation could be obtained.

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

Así, por obra del azar, soy y miro. Una mariposa blanca aletea en el aire con alas que sólo a ella pertenecen, y una sombra sobrevuela mi mano, la suya, no otra, no de cualquiera. Ante hechos semejantes me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo que no importa.

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

Titiro ki te rangi tahuri rawa ake, kahore he whenua e . . . Kua riro. We looked up to heaven and before we knew where we were there was no land left . . . all gone.

Witold Gombrowicz

Las ten co gorsza by? zielony.

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Wszak?e nie mog?o go tu nie by? — i nie omyli?em si? — tam, pomi?dzy wierzbami, w ich jamie, niewyra?ny, tkwi? na posterunku pod krzakami i wypatrywa?. Nie waha?em si? ani chwili. Po cichu przedosta?em si? do niego i stan??em obok, on ani drgn??, ja znieruchomia?em — a moje zg?oszenie si? na widza by?o deklaracj?, ?e ma we mnie towarzysza!

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