Quotes About Observation

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

When a scientist views things, he's not considering the incredible at all.

It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather - men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles.

It's as if she knows." said Sarah. "As if she has an instinct. Right from the beginning she wouldn't drink that water, not even when I mixed it with milk powder. She had to have hers from the container. And she hardly comes out from under the table except to go to the toilet. She's managed to avoid contamination and she hasn't been exposed to the dust. I think we have to forget about ourselves and concentrate on her.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

In the kitchen Gamache's German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn't purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish.

It was said with humor, but the criticism wasn't lost on Gamache. He was fishing, and he knew it. So did Sommes. So did Esther. We're all fishermen, she'd said.

They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.

Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter.

from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.