Quotes About Observation

las chicharras eran las únicas que agradecían al sol que llegara a la mitad del cielo. Nadie miraba las lagartijas tornasoles

Tal vez los actos quedan escritos en el aire y ahí los leemos con unos ojos que no nos conocemos.

Estaba solo, era ajeno al mundo. Sintió que siempre había estado a un lado, mirando pasar automóviles, personas, sucesos.

A face, he believes, is a piece of sculpture that has taken a lifetime to mold, so it tells more than any actor's technique possibly could. I've watched Fellini work, and he did

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

Ich sah verwundert, wie bescheiden, ja wie kümmerlich meine Wißbegier war, verglichen mit der eines solchen Mannes (...)

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then

From behind their windows, from behind their shutters, our fellow citizens watched as we passed.

You don't need a weatherman—to know which way the wind blows.

There were other things we noticed only at first, before we accepted them as a part of daily life. Then they got harder to describe, the way it's hard to describe what it feels like to breathe air.

Actors, painters, dancers, comedians, even just ordinary people doing ordinary things, what are they without an audience of some sort? See, that's what I do. I am the audience. I am the witness, I am the great appreciator that's what I do and that's all I want to do. I worked for a lot of years. I did a lot of things for a lot of years. Now, here I am in the rocking chair, and I don't mind it, Lucille. I don't feel useless. I feel lucky.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Kids don't really see old people. A lot of people don't.

anomaly, when in fact it's how the girl usually eats: head down, minimal conversation, maximum speed in clearing what she'll eat from her plate.

I sit in some long grass, watch for a while to see if I can find some ants working. The thing about watching ants is, you see some order and elegance to the whole works. And also is it a time of you wondering who is higher, really. But

Gee, color her suspicious, but if he kept this up, she was going to start thinking he wasn't a mall security guard at all.

It took only one, very quick, perusal of Ramsey Sage for Claire to know everything she needed to know about him. He was completely unfit to be anyone's mother. Or father. Or guardian.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye

Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money — the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.

The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached.