Quotes About Observation

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The behavior of the pigeon is beyond reproach, but the mountain cuckoo?

His Holiness the Abbot is shitting in the withered fields

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

Blimey, thought Kelvin, what an eye-to-face ratio. When you want to say something delicate, you don't want that eye-to-face ration staring up at you. Big eyes, like a child's or a baby seal's; the physiognomy of innocence--looking at Archie Jones is like looking at something that expects to be clubbed round the head any second.

The shit is not the shit, the pigeon is the shit.

We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.

I could see what everyone was feeling, but I was not with them and could not feel it. "You

grass can be seen, although it is important not to

She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.

many learned things can be said about the Venus of Urbino but if you don't open your eyes and recognize her first and foremost as an erotic object how can you claim that you've seen her at all?

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. Outside

He peered down the hallway at the shadowy form of Joyce through the glass and scratched his testicles, sadly.

Clarence, look see! It de young prince in white. 'Im come to play domino. I jus' look in his eye and I and I knew 'im play domino. 'Im an hexpert.

I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.

It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.

Komerciniame mene - o visas šio vardo nusipeln?s menas anks?iau ar v?liau tampa komercinis - kvailumas beveik visada slypi steb?tojo žvilgsnyje

strong, stirring instant as with fascinated eyes I watched

Belding hesitated and looked

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

yet she did not miss the poisoned honey of some tongues or the expressive glances of many eyes. Ina was quick to grasp that

Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums