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Quotes About Observation

En ender rastlanan çiçeklerin açt??? yerleri bilirdi.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
can you tell what goes on within by looking at what happens without? There may be a great fire in your soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself by it, all that passers-by can see is a little smoke coming out of the chimney and they walk on"_Page.70-71
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The change I observed is that at times Mother's thoughts are more lucid, whereas during these last months there were long periods when they seemed more or less fuzzy - which is really not to be wondered at. For a time thee was something overwrought in her, due to - at least so I imagine - the void around her and the feeling of loneliness.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Oh, tudo é tão triste A casa, o jardim, o teu olhar, o meu olhar, o olhar de Deus...
~ Vinicius de Moraes
It's incredible," she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle's eyebrows. "It's incredible the way I'm seeing you
~ Violette Leduc
Hylax barks in the doorway.
~ Virgil
North. He believes they saw him as
~ Unknown
herself. Moses laughed along with them. "You would be amazed the things men will say when they're standing around on the street corner. Since my trash route runs through the heart of the business district, I hear a great many
~ Unknown
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
~ Virginia Woolf
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
~ Virginia Woolf
In primo luogo la riproduzione fotografica delle vedute paesaggistiche, la fisionomia di un paesaggio, deve servire come aiuto importantissimo alla conoscenza della terra.
~ Unknown
Entonces nos sentamos juntas, en silencio, sin implicarnos la una con la otra, solo dos mujeres que escrutan la oscuridad de toda esa vida perdida. Mi madre no parece ni joven ni vieja, solo profundamente absorta por lo terrible de lo que ve ante sí. Y yo no sé qué soy a sus ojos.
~ Vivian Gornick
V S Naipaul] brings to [literary narrative] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought. Observe hard, think even harder, figure out what you are thinking in the simplest, clearest language, and you will arrive at narrative: that is his credo.
~ Vivian Gornick
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.
~ Unknown
Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Like so many aging college people, Pnin had long since ceased to notice the existence of students on the campus.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
The curtains were open to darkness. Arevin had not moved since returning from the observation point, where he had looked down upon the eastern desert and the rolling masses of storm clouds. The killing winds turned sharp-edged sand grains into lethal weapons. In the storm, heavy clothing would not protect Arevin, nor would any amount of courage or desperation. A few moments in the desert would kill him; an hour would strip his bones bare. In the spring no trace of him would be left.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-
~ Unknown
I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.
~ W. B. Yeats