Quotes About Observation

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to.

You can teel does a fellow like you with a spear of grass, did you know that?" "How do you tell?" "You wave it under his chin, and if his face goes red at all, then you know.

Svarte, who was reckoned the best smith at Arnäs, had watched Arn in the smithy and he reluctantly had to admit that there wasn't much he could teach the boy about hammer and anvil. If he were to be quite truthful, the opposite was more likely, which was embarrassing enough and not easy to swallow

How we can make a Judgement if we don't see what Happen.

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doing to watch the Almighty go about His business.

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.

In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. "You should not laugh at them," he said. "They are beautiful to each other.

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics. To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breath in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark. To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

Alice twists a lock of her hair as she sucks on her straw and swivels back and forth on her seat. The shush of the ball bearings sounds like the sea to her, like waves retreating through the sand. She is a thousand miles away. I know this, but I'm not going to let her know I know.

Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.

I don't know whether to be happy he's made my job so easy," Carter said, "or pissed off that someone that stupid not only roams the earth, but lives in my hometown.

True,'' Ida Belle said, ''but despite all of that, he's still interested. I may be an old maid, but I know what male interest looks like.'' Gertie waved a hand at her. ''Walter slipping you a free pack of toilet paper with your grocery order hardly qualifies as the ultimate in male interest. But despite Ida Belles overblown description of her knowledge of how men think, I think she's right this time

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

You can tell a lot about someone's character from the way they treat waiters or shop assistants or bus drivers when they think no one is watching.

He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.

Iwatch from where I sit on the craggy cliffs of Ballyhock to the waves crashing on the beach. Strong.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

The griefs of others—beautiful, at a distance.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they could talk as well as any wolf. Unlike wolves, however, they mostly used their mouths, a thing she found limiting. How could you tell someone to keep away from your food when your own mouth was full?