Quotes About Observation

standing there, looking about. He reached into his vest pocket and took out his watch, glanced at it, then returned it to his pocket and walked back to his office. Jordy Neff was waiting

from down the draw, and nobody spoke. All knew that the three

Well, ma'am, he looked around.

He'd better be one who keeps his eyes from the others or she'll have him over her knee.

came up on the porch, I noticed that Helen's eyes went at once to the book I had been reading.

The night before there had been much talk while I was at table, and taking no part in it, I listened nonetheless, for a trail is followed not only upon the earth but in the minds of those one pursues or the minds of those whose thinking is similar.

We who walk the woodland paths know that although all men look, not many see.

Every thing is what it is" is a famous phrase in British philosophy, and the essence of the empirical view.44*

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Dameon had hazel eyes with little black dots in the middle of each of them. The dots were called pupils.

Is your last name your first name backward? Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night?

It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

Okay, class, said Mrs Jewls, So that we have no more mix-ups, I want everybody to write his name on his pencil. Dameon spent the rest of the day trying to write his name on his pencil. Dameon's pencil couldn't write on itself. It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -

How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.

She was standing before a fine portrait of the old gentleman when the door opened again, and, without turning, she said decidedly, 'I'm sure now that I shouldn't be afraid of him, for he's got kind eyes, though his mouth is grim, and he looks as if he had a tremendous will of his own. He isn't as handsome as my grandfather, but I like him.' 'Thank you, ma'am,' said a gruff voice behind her, and there, to her great dismay, stood old Mr. Laurence.

That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.

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We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like. I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.

Read him well, and he will help you much, for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world and paint it with your pen.

Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background