Quotes About Observation

Take a chance on me, witchling." It was then that she made a fateful observation. Bowen MacRieve was holding his breath. Damn him! And there went strong and furious, gone with a whimper.

Don't look at this hand, look at that one.— Finn.

That don't look good, Kramisha said. Not good at all. She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Napoleon said, 'When your enemy is doing something stupid, don't interfere.

You seem hastily made, remarked the Scarecrow, watching Jack's efforts to straighten himself. Not more so than your Majesty, was the frank reply. There is this difference between us, said the Scarecrow, that whereas I will bend, but not break, you will break, but not bend.

he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.

It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens, observed the girl, thoughtfully.

todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.

get lost, Dorothy. It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens, observed the girl, thoughtfully.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

It's not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck..." I imply with a shrug "...well then you know what they say.""Nothing hap?""Quack!

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.