Quotes About Observation

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?

Tread carefully, Marty. I mean it. The world has completely changed around you while you weren't looking.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.

And so he waited by himself, leaning against a stone wall away from the other kids as they squealed and laughed and looked at their phones as if nothing in the world was wrong, as if nothing in the whole entire universe could ever happen to them.

We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal—who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi—what we'd seen. He

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Anthropologists like to say that to observe a culture is usually, in some small way, to change it. A similar dictum holds true for Bourdain's show. Whenever Bourdain discovered a hole-in-the-wall culinary gem, he places it on the tourist map, thereby leaching it of the authenticity that drew him to it in the first place. 'It's a gloriously doomed enterprise,' he acknowledged. 'I'm in the business of finding great places, and then we fuck them up.

No conductor of any symphony orchestra requires more sensitivity, more powers of observation, more finely tuned instincts, more passionate desires for perfection than the great classic racehorse trainer.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

What use is care ? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be seeing . I see the things I look at. I am a see-er.

the slow regard of silent things had wafted off the moisture in the air.

Denna peered out of the hedge toward the path, and I looked at her. Her hair fell like a curtain down the side of her head, and the tip of her ear was peeking through it. It was, at that moment, the most lovely thing I had ever seen.

And if you had the right sort of mind, the sort of mind that actually sees what it looks at, you might notice that his eyes were odd. If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.

She listened, then opened up the door and looked again. Nothing. But simply seeing did not help. She knew that seeming wasn't hardly half of things.

The crickets, too, respect the silence. Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen.

Too much looking can get in the way of seeing,

If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.

A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night.

A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.

Solo un necio desconfía de lo que ve con sus propios ojos.

You looked too hard and didn't see enough. Too much looking can get in the way of seeing, you see?

We're being followed," I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,

Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know. Kilvin

You've got sort of a wider view.