Quotes About Observation

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

We live on the leash of our senses.

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude

My life has become like a bus, and I'm just watching it pass by

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

Human faces are such a world!

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

If you've got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don't.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

"No comment" is a comment.