Quotes About Observation

Polly, who made a point of finding the good in everyone, didn't like Seela either. She practiced a set of showy good manners that were actually bad manners, such as explaining why she couldn't accept an invitation or complimenting someone's dress.

Maud, this is Dr. Goodman. I have asked her to sit in with us to get to know you a bit. She has been working with Heidi." "Oh. I didn't know." "I hope it is all right." Dr. Goodman quickly moved to shake Maud's hand with warm, dry fingers. A swift assessment occurred, and through an ineffable, possibly chemical process, the women reached the conclusion that they liked each other. She retreated to a spot behind Dr. Straight.

Agnes eyed the plums in the fruit bowl. They were hard as stone, merely decorative this early in the summer. But the color, purple and red, with a yellow pulse beneath the skin, made her mouth water. She felt a pang of sympathy for William Carlos Williams and his swiped plum.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

I did not do those things; I only watched, watched myself act, react.

and you breathe on me, as if I were an object, observable malice.

I don't feel like I am where you are; I'm not in the world except by appearance.

Todos os planetas e signos estão envolvidos com o corpo humano, e se você deseja compreender o processo ou a função de algum deles, observe o que ele rege no corpo e como contribui para o todo.

into the lane he dropped not once looking up

I always wake like this being watched already forgetting who I am

What I see is a woman who is not thinking about observing life but experiencing it.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.

Dittany hadn't lived in Lobelia Falls all her life without coming to realize that walls do in fact have ears and every little bird is a stool pigeon at heart.

The house looked a tiny bit unfamiliar, as houses always do when their owners have ben away.

Jij bent echt anders. Je zit als het ware in je eigen wereldje opgesloten en bekijkt ons vanaf de zijlijn maar je raakt er nooit echt bij betrokken. Je lijkt wel zo'n antropoloog die ons als een primitieve stam bestudeert. Daar krijgen mensen de kriebels van. - Donna (tegen Claire)

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

It's not that children are little scientists — it's that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as adults get to have this protected time when they can just explore, play, figure out what the world is like.

It's not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.

I'll show that babies, like scientists, use statistics and experiments to learn about the world.

Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist's computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what happens.

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence (even if we may occasionally suspect that they are bent on making us their slaves.)