Quotes About Observation

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

I want them to see certain things. I want them to hear certain things. I want them to taste certain things.

we don't notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished.

the universe doesn't exist without a perceiver of that universe.") All

I am walking down the street in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue in the lower sixties, women with shopping bags on all sides. I realize with some horror that for the last fifteen blocks I have been counting how many women have better and how many women have worse figures than I do. Did I say fifteen blocks? I meant fifteen years.

I have always believed that if I pay strict attention while I am out in the physical world—and for me that often meant the natural world—the physical world will give me everything I need to tell my stories" (78). —Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Look!" She pointed, a smile on her face. "Wild pigs!" "They have razor-sharp tusks, so don't try to hug one.

He leaned against the refrigerator, crossed his arms over his chest, and watched as she bustled about, her delicious ass doing things for his underwear that Calvin Klein couldn't possibly have envisioned.

Vic's jaw snapped shut. "You didn't tell me the men here were all so … hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado.

God, she was a sight. Just watching her made his heart beat faster. Did she have any idea how beautiful she was, or had a life of working in pantsuits and facing down society's violent assholes left her unaware of her own feminine appeal?

I realize that i've seen French mothers and nannies pausing exactly this little bit before tending to their babies during the day. It hadn't occurred to me that this was deliberate or that it was at all significant.

Brian noted Stephenson's thin face and was surprised to find that the term looking daggers was not as impossible as it had always sounded.

Her hair was down. It was real long. He hadn't known that. It hung down the front of her josie and kind of curled around those . . . those big round places that he tried not to think about. Her . . . her round places were really round. And they had points on the end of them.

But it was only while lolling around the basement or backyard that you'd settle into the anesthetizing effects of boredom, and with that monotony, your brain would kick into action, attempting to compensate. You might notice the world around you, both the minute and the grand, at its natural pace, letting go of the need to relentlessly move on to the next new thing.

He went to the window and glanced down at the traffic eight stories below...From so high up it all seemed fluid and impersonal, as though a mass of detritus were being swept away by water. That was all you really had to do to determine people's destiny: rise high enough to alter your view, making it divine.

Quien no conoce nada, no ama nada. Quien no puede hacer nada, no comprende nada. Quien nada comprende, nada vale. Pero quien comprende también ama, observa, ve… Cuanto mayor es el conocimiento inherente a una cosa, más grande es el amor… Quien cree que todas las frutas maduran al mismo tiempo que las frutillas nada sabe acerca de las uvas.

quem compreende também ama, observa, vê... Quanto mais conhecimento houver inerente numa coisa tanto maior o amor...

Wal-Mart, do they like, sell walls there?

I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

But many educated Americans who rise to positions of responsibility believe they must operate almost exclusively on the basis of what can be observed and measured because they are educated in a system that mistakenly defines reality that way. And yet, everything human is driven by the invisible powers of the heart.

I assume that each person contains all the potentials that education wishes to cultivate: insight, capacity for observation and analysis, ability to appreciate, creative energy.

Turistii se adunau de acum in batalioane organizate inaintea catedralei, mitraliindu-I fatada cu o docilitate unaninma. In sort sau in bermude atacau plini de hotarare locurile sfinte, cu degetul pe tragaciul camerei de luat vederi, gata sa-l surprinda pe Dumnezeu in flagrant delict. Turistul nu crede in lucruri decat dupa ce le-a transfigurat in poze.