Quotes About Observation

It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

What are your main inspirations when drawing? The news, nature, other people, day-to-day events, music, sounds, art, everything is potentially inspirational. All you have to do is go outside, read a newspaper or watch contemporary television or movies. The cartoons write themselves! (2014 interview with iamhiphop)

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I'm afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.

The more I saw of love, the less I liked the look of it

Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.

And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching.

I do not understand much of geometry and have no head for numbers. I have read Pythagoras, and I disagree with his assertion that man exists simply to observe the heavens. Observing the heavens leads one to contemplate the Creator of the heavens, and is it not more profitable to marvel at Adonai than His works?

Freika said, and twisted his head around between his hind legs. Jane eyed him as he went to work. "You know, if you're smart enough for sarcasm, you're smart enough to know it's rude to lick your own genitals." The wolf looked up. "You're just jealous." She opened her mouth to deny it, then stopped. "Well, yeah.

Philip said that the older he got the more he realised that everyone in Dickens, without exception, was a real person, and quite a lot of them were among his friends.

Mrs. Leslie did not at all want to look at anyone's feet, for grown-up feet are seldom a really pleasant sight. It is one of life's little tragedies that the divine feet of babies, so soft and exquisitely rounded, "les pieds ronds" as our peculiar neighbours the Gauls say when they mean someone is tiddly or has had one over the eight, inevitably turn into the average human foot with all the knobs, corns, whelks, and bubukles that civilization brings.

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

In the dark you can't see no THING but no THING can see you.

Watch and wait, boy. Watch and wait.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

poetry is a way of seeing and that a poet is not so much a person skilled with words as a person who recognizes the poetry that exists all the time all around us.

Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.

and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess

There must be some compensation for being an onlooker,' said Beatrice. 'The role is not always an enviable one.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.