Quotes About Observation

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.

You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It's no secret that a headmistress's biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane." "Hello to Jane," he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his shorts in a silly curtsey. I couldn't decide if it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen, or the funniest, so I stared back at him.

El atisbo de reojo delata sin excepción al alumno que alberga alguna intención de copiarse. Los preceptores debían alcanzar esa misma destreza para obtener un sigilo igualmente implacable. No para "mirar sin ver", que es como la frase hecha define al distraído, sino al contrario, para ver sin mirar, para poder verlo todo sin que parezca estar mirando nada.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

Miki said, It's okay, Rin. Don Abene is always cautious. I'd seen lots of dead cautious humans, but I wasn't going to say that to Miki.

Why does it look like a person?" I said, "I ask myself that sometimes." Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, "It is a person!" In the background, I heard Overse whisper, "Ratthi, get off the comm!

Impersonated is a weird word, especially in this context. (I just noticed that. Im-person-ated. Weird.)

Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.

I hadn't looked at the maps yet and I'd barely looked at the survey package. In my defense, we'd been here twenty-two planetary days and I hadn't had to do anything but stand around watching humans make scans or take samples of dirt, rocks, water, and leaves. The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

Their expressions gave Moon the impression that was he was being watched with disapproval, but he felt like that a lot, so it was probably just him.

And of course I had a camera on the unfolding shitshow on the observation deck.

Your face just got really weird. Are you all right?

I knew Amena well enough by now to recognize she was feigning polite interest to disguise horrified interest.)

The thing that surprised me is that nobody stared at us. Nobody even gave us a second look. The uniform, the pants, the long-sleeved T-shirt and jacket, covered all my inorganic parts. If they noticed the dataport in the back of my neck they must have thought I was an augmented human. We were just three more people making our way down the ring. It hit me that I was just as anonymous in a crowd of humans who didn't know each other as I was in my armor, in a group of other SecUnits.

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

I liked humans, I liked watching them on the entertainment feed, where they couldn't interact with me.

I'd watched family dramas before, but I'd never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.)

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.