Quotes About Observation

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

I watch a lot of Liverpool and Manchester City.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

My father was really into it. We would wake up in the morning and look at the markets.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

He took a bite of scone, observing that it had achieved that delicate balance between crumbliness and half-set mortar that is the ideal of every scone, and felt some stirrings of appetite return.

She'd learned from Rey that snakes often traveled in pairs, so she was careful to look before she stepped

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before. Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170

Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. People are strange, he said. Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Sorry I gave you a fright. Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan stared, rather balefullt, back. My word, he's ugly Howl said. Chip off the old block Howl! said Sophie. But she did not sound angry.

She stood for a moment looking out at a slowly moving view of the hills, watching heather slide past underneath the door, feeling the wind blow her wispy hair, and listening to the rumble and grind of the big black stones as the castle moved.

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell

My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.

horrible horseless carriage. The invisible watchers