Quotes About Observation

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

Anywhere but in England it would be impossible for two solitary men, howsoever much reduced by influenza, to spend five or six days in the same hostel and not exchange a single word. This is one of the charms of England.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.

Where silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence. Man does not put silence to the test; silence puts man to the test.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

As for justice, who has once seen it done?

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be.

For you, Lady Copley, Lady Agatha wishes you to have her china set, since you complimented it." Blake bit back laughter at Lady Copley's expression. She had loathed the china set, obviously, and only complimented it as part of the games. But Agatha had known how to discern the truth from the lies.

Treba da zapazimo ?ovjeka, da ga razlikujemo od ostalih, svako ima nešto svoje, i drago mu je ako se baš to posebno primijeti.

A onda mi je došlo do svijesti da je opasno i ovo radosno posmatranje, nisam se više osje?ao nadmo?an, ni skriven, oživjelo je nešto neželjeno u meni. Nije to bila strast, ve? možda gore od toga: uspomena.

Nikog ne poznajem, i nemam nikakvih obaveza osim da ostanem neprimije?en. Osje?am se izdvojen, stran, ništa nije moje, i mogu da budem nadmo?an, i surov. Udaljujem ih od sebe, potirem crte lica, gušim glasove do neprepoznavanja, prekidam svaku ljudsku vezu izme?u sebe i njih, posmatram ih obesmišljene, puštam da žive preda mnom bez moje pomo?i, sami sobom, bez mog razumijevanja i podrške, bez mog opravdanja i kritike, bez moga u?eš?a.

Others said it was more like five thousand. Eyewitnesses

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Lassan azért kezdek rájönni, hogy sokszor azokra érdemes odafigyelni, akik nem járatják folyton a szájukat.

Miro una imagen y veo las cosas que no están a la vista en ese momento. No es que sea una especie de mística, simplemente veo una constelación de hechos minúsculos que son demasiado pequeños para que la gente se fije en ellos. No detecto cada elemento en concreto de la constelación, pero la impresión general está clara. El Oso. El Cazador. El Cisne.

Dear, dear," Ivan said, eyebrow raised. "So this is what Kansas looks like.

and sometimes I looked back at him doing the same expression myself just to see what he'd say.

Maybe that was what it was like to be a writer: Even with the eyes closed, you could see.