Quotes About Observation

To a man of certain age... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

When I was a wee little kid, remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

Bothari maintained an admirable stillness, against the wall, but Miles could feel his eyes boring through his shoulder blades with his sharpest what-the-hell-are-you-doing-now look. Miles did not turn.

To a man of a certain age, Cazaril, all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

Miles decided he would have to point it out to his cousin at some appropriate moment, preferably when Ivan's mouth was full.

It came to Tej then, belatedly, that Lady Alys had just spent much of the prior conversation slowly, gently, and thoroughly roasting her son.

I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is clearly time to go, and I left them there and then.

Can I tell that from her ear Axel? No, I can't. Why don't you go sit down somewhere and stop pacing behind me.

Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself.

I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast—I was becoming typical.

When she got to Eileen Reilly, Eileen turned red and said, I would rather not say. This astounded me, for her father was a handsome, charming salesman at Home Savings Shoes on Main Street - Stan the Shoe Man, my mother affectionately called him. But his daughter had absorbed some disappointment - his, or her mother's - and did not want to speak of how he earned his living. Perhaps that was the moment I learned this as a source of personal shame, or observed the possibility of it.

To know something you had to be able to go inside and feel, then step outside and look, and then do that again: go inside, feel, then outside and look. You had to do it twice. That was knowledge. Two in a row.

In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

All creatures behave according to their nature," said Eggthoda "Find out what their nature is, and you can deal safely with them

Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it. There was beauty out there...

Her eyes went again to the man in black. He had removed his hat when he seated himself and she noticed that his hair was black and curly. He was a lean, powerfully built man, probably larger than he looked while seated. Her eyes trailed again to the bandage. "You…you've hurt yourself!" she exclaimed. "Your shoulder!" Embarrassed

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait.

Once he paused near a small stream to watch a dipper bob up and down on a rock. He saw a school of trout lurking in a shady place where a branch hung low on the water. No amount of seeing ever made nature old to him, and he was conscious of every movement and sound.

see perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout

It is not necessary to travel in order to write good stories; it is only necessary to see, to understand, to reveal.