Quotes About Observation

Alexis de Tocqueville.

There's always been a wild quiet about Solly. It stays in the air near him like a scent.

that the table established a kind of alliance between the parties, and made guests more apt to receive certain impressions and submit to certain influences. This was the origin of political gastronomy. Entertainments have become governmental measures, and the fate of nations is decided on in a banquet. This is neither a paradox nor a novelty but a simple observation

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

This gentleman, with knowing air, Survey'd

Via?a continua s? se desf??oare ca întotdeauna în jurul nostru f?r? s? fim nevoi?i s? o atingem, nici m?car s-o în?elegem. ?i n-o în?elegeam fiindc? nu munceam.

It happend that Bob referred in front of Paul to the young woman met in Chantilly; it happened that Paul spoke to Bob of the one from the cinema that he'd had so much trouble seeing again. It never occurred to them that these portraits might bear a certain resemblance to each other, and the fact is that they bore none at all.

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.

C'est fort de cÅ"ur ; ça ne crie pas quand tu les tues, ça te fixe dans les yeux, ça te traverse par les yeux avec l'aiguille des yeux.

trois images sont peinturées dedans ma tête, telles que, vivantes, et qui se mettent entre le pays et moi, si bien que je les vois quand mon Å"il, pourtant, regarde l'arbre, l'herbe, la pomme ou le dos des collines.

and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.