Quotes About Observation

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

I watch a lot of games and analyze a lot.

I started to really watch football. To analyze it. To understand what I felt, and what I wanted to put into practice when I became a coach.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

I always watch Anderson Silva and I always watch his fighting style.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

That's one thing I miss, just being anonymous.

I don't study any films. I'll watch them, but I don't study anyone else.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.'

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

Consequently she watched him with all her eyes, all her mind; and by giving herself up to hopes that were sometimes flourishing, sometimes blighted, she had brought the matter to such enormous proportions that she saw all things in a mental mirage. To use a common but excellent expression, by dint of looking intently she saw nothing.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

Paul never imagined, as he observed the habits of life of the two ladies, that they covered a gulf of ruin. Then, though there may exist some general rules to soften the asperities of marriage, there are none by which they can be accurately foreseen and evaded.

At each sentence my hostess put her head forward, looking at me with an innkeeper's keen scrutiny, a happy compromise between the instinct of a police constable, the astuteness of a spy, and the cunning of a dealer.

Is not the forehead the most prophetic feature of a man?

La Société française allait être l'historien, je ne devais être que le secrétaire.

Quand on connaît Paris, on ne croit à rien de ce qui s'y dit, et on ne dit rien de ce qui s'y fait.