Quotes About Observation

O how beautiful, look at the crimson snow! And up there on the rocks there are ever so many roses!

I never saw the face of Cobbett...I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.

No matter how spectacular their beauty, the deer hunter never sees the mountains.

Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.

Simon curled up by Aunt Dot's chair, but he kept an eye on me in case any sudden disciplinary action should be necessary.

Pulling down his hat he lingered on the street corner, melting back against a grimy wall of London brick.

The trouble with you, Vic, he said, is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness

her mouth working mutely like the valve of an undersea creature

The world is always ready to be amazed, but the self, that lynx-eyed monitor, sees all the subterfuges, all the cut corners, and is not deceived.

Tendo a non fare molto caso alle altre persone – l'ho già detto in precedenza, è uno dei miei difetti più gravi – e nelle rare occasioni in cui metto la testa fuori dal guscio e do una bella occhiata, quello che mi colpisce in modo strabiliante non è quanto siano diversi da me, ma quanto siano simili, malgrado tutto.

Å»aden szczegóÅ' ludzkiego oblicza nie zniesie dÅ'u?szej obserwacji.

The necessity for an observer makes perfect observation impossible.

would presume nothing. I would take notes.

I would presume nothing. I would take notes.

I've spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it's out beyond the harbour on the high seas, but it's very nice to look at.

The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person.

I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones.

Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut.

Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace. - Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.

Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.

Hay cosas que sencillamente están ahí, sin molestar a nadie, esperando a que las descubran.