Quotes About Observation

I've played against Griezmann several times in Spain. He's not very tall but he's very adept at figuring out where the ball will be.

You can't be six feet tall and invisible.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Life is what we see

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it, a wise man once told me.

It is rare that the human mind can determine the truths of nature, or even of ourselves, by intuition or casual observation. That

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually

He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own. —CALEB COLTON

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Ray looks over to see what Carlos is talking about. He has good control of his face. He's done this before. Ray never looks shocked, but the momentary spike in his heartbeat and his pupils dilating tell me all I need to know.

The Magistrate hasn't said a word this whole time. He just stands there like a mantis, all insect patience and killer instincts.

You're goddamn paranoid. You should see someone about that." "I tried, but she kept writing things down. It made me more paranoid.

We judge the world quite harshly, but we rarely judge noise. We can hide in the noise.

I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself. - Celine

This is not merely the literary technique of overhearing

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. —THOMAS HUXLEY

And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God cometh he answered them and said: The kingdom of God Cometh not with observation; neither shall they say, Lo, here! or there, for lo, the kingdom of God is within you [16: 17:20-1].

A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.

child, he had learned the gift of watchful silence.