Quotes About Observation

Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don't see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn't we see something so obvious as color?

took immediate note of her glasses—plastic-framed and turquoise in color.

his nails clicked and clacked

I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.

The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even of his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skepticism in four words. Whisper to him: 'Your fly is open.' If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?

Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.

Otro plan que llegó a oídos de los estadounidenses fue que los kuwaitíes ejecutarían a un gran número de palestinos para «intentar provocar una huida masiva de la comunidad y provocar así el éxodo». Se trataba de una variación del método utilizado por Israel para despoblar el oeste de Palestina en 1948, aunque los estadounidenses no hicieron esta observación.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

I am always looking outside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what's out there. And what's out there is constantly changing.

There are too many images, too many cameras now. We're all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It's just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn't an art anymore. Maybe it never was

Any eye is an evil eyeThat looks in on to a mood apart.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.

Everything in nature tells a different story to all eyes that see and to all ears that hear.

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.

He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films.

You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it,

She thought it might be the very first time that Strike had ever given any indication that he saw her as a woman, and she silently filed away the exchange to pore over later, in solitude.

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.

After a brief hesitation, the doctor accepted Strike's proffered hand, and as the two men shook, Robin wondered how aware men were of the power dynamics that played out between them, while women stood watching.