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Quotes About Observation

Parker had an extra sense that told him when there was a woman nearby watching him.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology, and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The grandmother wrote this down because she thought it would be interesting to say how many miles they had been when they got back. It took them twenty minutes to reach the outskirts of the city.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Haze stood for a few minutes, looking over at the scene. His face seemed to reflect the entire distance across the clearing and on beyond, the entire distance that extended from his eyes to blank gray sky that went on, depth after depth, into space.
~ Flannery O'Connor
When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?
~ Flaubert Gustave
Neuken zegt mij niets meer. Mijn verlangen is te universeel, te permanent en te intens om er een bepaalde begeert op na te houden. Ik ga niet met vrouwen naar bed, maar ik doe als de dichter in jouw roman, ik verslind ze met mijn blik.
~ Flaubert Gustave
When I first saw my wife in Romania I said to Kingy, 'I fancy her' and he said, 'Nah, mate, she's really scary.'
~ Dave Myers
When I wasn't wrestling, I was always at the circus or at a show watching all these people - 'how do they make their stuff work for their audience?' That used to fascinate me as a child.
~ William Regal
You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.
~ Harvey Weinstein
I'm just totally fascinated by people.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
~ Mary Roach
I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
~ Margaret Keane
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
~ Mark Frost
I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.
~ Christopher Guest
Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.
~ Michelle Yeoh
Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.
~ Cheech Marin
There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.
~ Mark Hamill
Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
~ Penny Junor
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
~ John Ratzenberger
I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
~ Ronald Reagan