Quotes About Observation

Ã…Å¡niadanie w Hermitage z przypadkowo poznanym A. i jego ?onÄ…. Jedzenie zalatuje - proszÄ™ wybaczy? - bardzo luksusowym klozetem, wÅ'aÅ›ciwie nie wiem dlaczego ale, kiedy zawisÅ'em na krawÄ™dzi tych apetycznych frykasów, w gÄ™stej dystynkcji kelnerów, byÅ'bym przysiÄ…gÅ', ?e to klozet. ZresztÄ… spa? mi siÄ™ chciaÅ'o. Mo?e dlatego.

Mnie wiÄ™c nie wolno byÅ'o siÄ™ przyglÄ…da? i staraÅ'em siÄ™ nie widzie?, ale, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… Fryderyka, który siedziaÅ' obok niej na Å'aweczce, znów natrÄ™tnie zapytywaÅ'em siebie: czy widziaÅ'? Czy wiedziaÅ'? I czyhaÅ'em na jedno chocia?by spojrzenie jego, z tych niby obojÄ™tnych a przeÅ›lizgujÄ…cych siÄ™ chyÅ'kiem, Å'akomych.

She never moved in pieces like a mosaic She moved whole like a sculpture But it was next to impossible With her limited means even if she had started And besides They were watching

If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?

Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.

While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

To a human, the fall-colored leaves are gorgeous. To a red or yellow leaf, I can guarantee they find the green ones lovelier.

Justo castigo Es verdad que tengo cierta facilidad de palabra y puedo sostener una conversación sobre un repertorio amplio de temas, pero me pilló por sorpresa que aquella soberbiamente proporcionada aparición reparase en mis exiguas dotes de forma tan rápida y completa.

When asked if Mia Farrow's character Hanna in Hannah and her sisters was a good sister or bad sister) SB: And now , in retrospect, have you made up your mind yet? WA: Well, in retrospect, I think she's not so nice. If you look closely, she's not as nice as you imagine.

I know as much about wine as I know about horses or bipolar women. The trick is to position your eyes so it looks like you're checking the year on the menu but really checking the prices.

I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it.

Each person reveals himself by what he says and does, by the way he dresses, by the way he responds to events, by what he reads and watches, and generally by the way he lives life. By observing anyone, you can see what that person is like.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, Stay out!...we say to it, Stay in! with our barriers. Under such conditions of diplomatic peace, all animals are content and we can relax and have a look at each other.

The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great.

Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.

The reward for the watching eye and the listening ear is great. I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

there's sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don't make out what is right in front of you.

for, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.

It's a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.

I move.. I am.. I want ...I take.. I see ..I learn I grow ...I make

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.