Quotes About Observation

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

Note: if you want to seem like a super-creepy person, be an adult, by yourself, taking photos of children and people on a beach.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

haters are just more people paying attention to you.

The one notable thing about Steve's niceness is that he is also very smart, and that kind of niceness has always made me nervous. When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

SOMETIMES I bring a script I'm working on to a restaurant and sit near people and eavesdrop on them. I could rationalize it—Oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing—but it's basically just nosiness. I especially

Interspecies Friendships. A smart, small observational show about two animals who are friends against all odds.

When admiring a painting, Don't examine the paint. When meeting an artist, Don't look at the brush.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Now, I looked across the Plattsburgh train depot and swelled with indulgent love at Ev's grumpy scowl.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.

That said, the spaces between my features are in perfect proportion to each other. So far no one has noticed this. Also my ears: darling little shells. I wear my hair tucked behind them and try to enter crowded rooms ear-first, walking sideways.

After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.

I feel into the eyes of every person I passed on the street.

For the first six months I just walked around in a constant state of amazement. I looked at other couple and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands.

I flitted around the city either turning heads or else walking by heads just as they were turning.

A neighbor with a green thumb and no yard. That's all. Would this be the first of many awakenings?

Dac? m? simÈ›eam privit de cineva, paÈ™ii mei deveneau stângaci È™i automaÈ›i, ca È™i când mi-ar fi fost permanent team? c? nu voi mai È™ti cum se merge È™i c? dintr-un moment într-altul m? voi pr?buÈ™i pe asfalt.

Erau frumo?i (ochii Irinei n.m.) nu cum ai spune: o floare e frumoas?, sau: un copil e frumos, ci cum spui: e frumos c? exist? flori sau copii.

Cuando era pequeño cazaba mariposas, atrapaba un podalirio o un zapatero e insertaba en su cuerpo vermicular un alfiler, tal y como había visto hacer. Clavaba el alfiler en un corcho y observaba cómo seguían aleteando durante varias horas, cómo se aferraban con sus seis patas filiformes al corcho poroso. Con esa misma crueldad y placer te clavaría en estas páginas.

We ought to have a sensory organ that can tell sign from coincidence.

S-ar putea întâmpla fel de fel de miracole, continuase el f?r? s-o priveasc?. Dar trebuie s? te înveÅ£e cineva cum s? le priveÅŸti, ca s? ÅŸtii c? sunt miracole. Altminteri, nici m?car nu le vezi. Treci pe lâng? ele ÅŸi nu ÅŸtii c? sunt miracole. Nu le vezi...

Let the eyes see, let the heart take notice. Be not harsh in your power, lest trouble befall you. Pass over a matter, it becomes two. He who eats tastes; one addressed answers. It is the sleeper who sees the dream; and a judge who deserves punishment is a model for the (evil) doer.

Jedina stvarala?ka stvarnost jesu isklju?ivo prvotna oskvrnu?a naših osjetila: ?ovjek vidi samo onda kad je nešto ugledao.