Quotes About Observation

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

I watched her peel off the slip, The bra closed in the front like the other. Ah, my teeth clenched seeing her tighten the clasps, breasts gathered like that. The she smoothed the flesh into the cups, lifted each breast, dropped it, her fingers casual, rough. I got hard watching it. Then the panties came up stretched sheer over her pubic hair. I could see the silk seal itself over her secret lips. Little crack. Hair a dark shadow underneath.

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

From Camus' notebooks … "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.

Wheeler, P., and H. E. Rives. Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.

I swung the door open and relaxed. She wasn't there. I stepped in and shut the door behind me. I had promised God I wouldn't touch anything. I'd just look at what was lying around. If Jane Eyre had only looked around a little, she might have saved herself a lot of heartache.

Get it, get it, get it!" moaned Bean. She had never been so bored in her entire life. She was so bored she fell on the floor. Then she took a tiny peek up at the lady in the dressing room next door. Yow. "Get up, Bean!" said her mother. "This minute." Bean got up and sat on the triangle seat again. She waited. Nancy looked at herself. "I kind of like it," Nancy said. "But it costs forty dollars. That's all my

But after a while, Miri noticed that none of the smiling people ever looked at her. Their eyes moved from Ray and Robbie on one side to Nell and Nora on the other, slipping right over Miri in the middle.

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love.

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

Il n'a jamais mis les pieds dans un musée. Il s'arrêtait devant un beau jardin, des arbres en fleur, une ruche, regardait les filles bien en chair.

Je note ces choses pour comparer avec ce qui précède et suivra, ce dont je ne suis jamais sûre.)

Dans les rues, les gens qu'il saluait étaient toujours des jeunes, souvent des étudiants. Quand il s'arrêtait pour leur parler, je me tenais à l'écart, ils me regardaient furtivement. Après, il me racontait le parcours universitaire de celui que nous avions croisé, détaillant ses réussites ou ses échecs.

Dans la rue des Santi Apostoli, odeur forte du crottin, lavé régulièrement par les machines. Une grosse femme est assise sur le trottoir, on voit sa culotte très propre et blanche, soulignant une vulve proéminente. Depuis que ma mère est morte, je ne détourne plus les yeux de telles scènes avec gêne.

Sa femme est à côté de moi. Je ne « sens » rien, sinon une espèce de curiosité, mais les quelques paroles qu'ils échangent tous les deux me relèguent à ma condition d'étrangère Ã¢â'¬â€œ doublement. Elle semble ne plus soupçonner quoi que ce soit.

Entre ce qui arrive dans le monde et ce qui lui arrive à elle, aucun point d'intersection, deux séries parallèles, l'une, abstraite, toute en informations aussitôt oubliées que perçues, l'autre en plans fixes.

Comme la plupart des parents, les miens s'imaginaient détecter infailliblement au premier coup d'Å"il le moindre signe de dérive.

Pour un homme. Et quand je le vois, là, dans le hall de l'ambassade, je le trouve insignifiant, joli garçon, c'est tout. Je relis Anna Karenine.

I don't even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I'm breaking the game down constantly. You're sitting there watching the plays, and you're talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.

We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.