Quotes About Observation

who was sitting here before him in full flesh and makeup.

Everyone marveled--between courses at The Palm--at how out of touch Mittens was.

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you."-Mark Miller

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky." (p.275)

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

Birding is hunting without killing, preying without punishing, and collecting without clogging your home.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?

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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

Angst is the intellectual observation that fairy tales aren't true—that there is an unhappy end to every happy beginning. Angst

As Mark Twain observed, "Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Pino ignored her, focusing instead on the locomotive in an apron chugging out of the kitchen

fifty meters away and down the length of the stadium. An OT captain and a sergeant trailed him. Pino pressed himself tight to the tunnel

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.