Quotes About Observation

Her elongated eyes did not close as other women's eyes did, but like the eyes of tigers, pumas and leopards, the two lids meeting lazily and slowly; and they seemed slightly sewn together towards the nose, making them narrow, with a lascivious, oblique glance falling from them like the glance of a woman who does not want to see what is being done to her body. All this gave her an air of being made love to, which aroused the Baron as soon as he met her.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.

He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind.

The main thing is to feel your presence—hear you humming or yawning, see your combs & brushes lying around, worry about which dress you should put on, etc.

Viajamos en direcciones opuestas. Observo todo esto en tono trágico.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind. Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.

No es de extrañar que yo observe su vida y me dé cuenta de que la mía nunca se parecerá a la de él, porque la mía la retiene el pensamiento.

We carefully observe and watch the happenings of the entire world without realizing they are projections of our inner selves.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Everyone was good at talking about day-to-day events, but no one ever looked at what motivated them.

Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at the earth close to, I saw, from leaf to leaf and flower to flower, a moving host of insects.

Acum am înÅ£eles cum te poÅ£i distra la recepÅ£iile mondene: observînd cît de ridicoli sunt cei din jur.

I blinked and looked around my tiny rented kitchen, saw things I'd never seen before: the stove leaning to the left, the handle of the fridge covered with dirty masking tape, the chipped paint of the window casing, a missing square of linoleum on the floor under the radiator. I stood and closed the notebook. I picked up the pencil and set it on top like some kind of marker, a reminder to me of something important I shouldn't lose.

Mais vous avez dû tomber amoureux, n'est-ce pas ? Vous êtes devenu du jour au lendemain un homme heureux ! C'est ça ? Les gens heureux, tant qu'ils sont heureux, ne remarquent pas les anomalies, mais ce n'est que temporaire. Les anomalies sont toujours là, à côté d'eux!

One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot, and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. " 'What are you doing?' I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. " 'What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give it.

Leggera, la cena, ma tutto cucinato con quel tocco che il Signore rarissimamente concede agli Eletti. Montalbano non ringraziò la moglie del questore, si limitò a taliarla con gli occhi di un cane randagio al quale viene fatta una carezza.

The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object

For the cinema image is essentially the observation of a phenomenon passing through time.

The cinema image is the observation of a phenomenon passing through time. Time becomes the very foundation of cinema...Time exerts a pressure which runs through the shot ...Just as a quivering reed can tell you about the current or water pressure of a river, in the same way we know the movement of time as it flows through the shot.

He spotted Jill sitting about thirty feet away, face tipped toward the sun, her straight brown hair tucked behind one ear and slanted across her neck. And Ben decided that when her mouth wasn't full of tuna salad, she was sort of pretty.