Quotes About Observation

I was just thinking of all the years and times when I've sat across from you, and wondered if I'd ever truly seen you at all.

The care he always took with his own appearance and behavior. "Just because you cannot see a woman does not mean she does not see you." Oh, Burrich. The extra time he still took, grooming a horse that she seldom rode anymore.

Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

She seemed to have eyes like a fly, with multiple sections that could see sideways and backwards, and into things that hadn't even happened yet. Such as into Barry Hollis's desk where he had a packet of cigarettes and a copy of Playboy.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

Life is poetry," said Mae. "Stop. Watch. Listen. There's poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don't write itself.

Collin admired this man a minute more, unable to remove his eyes from the reflection, barely even remembering to breathe. He never noticed the slender, short brunette standing behind his shoulder, also taking in his reflection, until she whistled in appreciation.

Without ever deciding to, Collin moved his legs. He crossed the bustling downtown street, just aware enough of the cars, buses, and bicycles zipping by to dodge them. But his eyes remained on the man who looked like him, who checked his watch No, that's my watch, he reminded himself-and then picked up his pace, apparently realizing he was about to be late for work. Late for

Time can vanish in exploring these places, like wandering through an art gallery of unexpected forms and colors. Sometimes, I look up from my microscope at the end of an hour, and I'm taken aback at the plainness of the ordinary world, the drab and predictable shapes.

Biologists may make unsuitable dinner conversation, but we are seldom bored.

My natural inclination was to see relationships, to seek the threads that connect the world, to join instead of divide. But science is rigorous in separating the observer from the observed, and the observed from the observer.

Someone's already been this way this morning." "Someone is in my hat," she says, shaking out a deerfly. Someone, not something.

To me, an experiment is a kind of conversation with plants: I have a question for them, but since we don't speak the same language, I can't ask them directly and they won't answer verbally. But plants can be eloquent in their physical responses and behaviors. Plants answer questions by the way they live, by their responses to change; you just need to learn how to ask.

to see you kids eating my berries." I knew the difference: In the fields behind my house, the berries belonged to themselves.

My natural inclination was to see relationships, to seek the treads that connect the world, to join instead of divide. But science is rigorous in separating the observer from the observed, and the observed from the observer.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

They both took their napkins, unfolded them and set them on their laps. I did the same and watched as they arranged their utensils, following their lead. It was just another reminder of how much I didn't know. The

Honey, I have a feeling he doesn't think of you as a friend. Have you seen the way he looks at you?" She glanced at him and as if he could feel her gaze, he turned his eyes on her. Soft and hard all at once. "Yeah," Mel said. "He promised to stop doing that.

Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks—otherwise known

Hand still on her holster, she tucked herself beside the ice coolers and peered through the open door.

Today, he carefully stepped through McPherson's house, where a single half-drunk glass of wine and a plate of sliced cheese sat on the kitchen counter. The knife she'd used to cut the cheese had been left near the remains of a wedge. "Snack for one," he observed. "Maybe dinner." When he arched a brow, she said, "I'm a single woman. I recognize a meal when I see one." "If

system, then watched through the curtain