Quotes About Observation

AB: It's a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer. Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

We eat a couple of cookies in bed and I point out that there's been a change (not a bad thing but still…) in Rachel Maddow's lip gloss and he admires my keen eye and we brush the cookie crumbs onto the floor because no one is watching. I plump my pillow so vigorously, it knocks everything off my nightstand, and he laughs and says that I'm a danger to myself and others. Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.

Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.

He's beautiful, for one thing, although I know boys hate to be called that. I could look at him for hours, his soft, gray eyes and the long lines of his body, the birthmark I found on the right side of his neck, a dark fleck shaped like a crescent moon.

The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.

The last time I saw Kate she was crossing a street, the day before I left town. I turned my head and pretended not to notice her doing the same thing. These are the daily lies that she and I have lived. And the biggest lie of all is that I am here. What kind of a friend am I?

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info you need.

He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.

Nothing," he said softly. "It's just a real nice turtle, that's all." "You

Nothing to be sorry about," Therese said crisply. "I'm sure she looked sane at the bar.

Oh, that was wonderful. That was the reason the gods let old men live, Cal. So we can watch young men fall in love.

He'd forgotten how big the place was, and he was so busy looking around, he misjudged the placement of the doorframe and hit himself painfully as he walked through.

He'd even seen Crick naked in passing and knew that his cock was long and slender, with a little mushroom of a head, and he was pretty sure there was a birthmark one side, but he hadn't seen it long enough to be sure.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Sappho would speak, I think, quite openly,And Mrs. Browning guard a careful silence,But Emily would set doors ajar and slam themAnd love you for your speed of observation.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Any interaction is training. Translation: Every time you have any kind of contact with an animal—when you leave food on the floor, talk to it, pass its enclosure—you are teaching it something whether you mean to or not.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

Luke tells us: pay attention to earthly matters, neighbors and relatives, shepherds, and who else might be at the inn.

Le poisson ne vous dira pas que le pêcheur pêche, mais vous dira qu'il est en train de tuer

Eres bonita -dijo Raúl-. Más aún de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista. Tienes una belleza escondida, que sólo puede conocerse al cabo de un gran rato de verte, de hablarte.

An old man seating down is able to see far better than a child standing on top of a tree.