Quotes About Observation

Todos en el juzgado parecían estar inoculados en contra de la crítica y la autocrítica; unos se rascaban las costillas, otros los sobacos, las mujeres se arreglaban un tirante del brasier, pujando. (...) Total, que si ninguno se veía a sí mismo, ninguno veía tampoco a los demás.

I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.

Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.

I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all twisted out of shape and the gray wolf Berserker was missing. Dracula had temporarily inherited its body. Dracula had a totally difference experience at the zoo from that of other people.

Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.

Your hair looks different," Grisha told Varvara. "Oh? I haven't had it cut." He squinted at her. "I think it grew

Spiderwebs attached themselves, like long trails of agglutinative suffixes, onto our arms and faces.

As usual, the girls were more interesting to look at.

Of course, it wasn't possible to account for all the time. By the time you had written down what time it was, it was already later than it had been.

There was no way to go through life, in Turkish or any other language, making only factual statements about direct observations. You were forced to use -mi?, just by the human condition—just by existing in relation to other people.

I wanted to look through the telescope, but felt embarrassed—it felt like looking in someone's medicine cabinet. The medicine cabinet of God. Well, and what would change if I saw some stars?

Why was that the thing you had to do when you saw a girl: to prosecute whether and in what way she was beautiful—as Lara, I realized, was? With guys, some of them were physically repellent or appealing, but a lot of them initially presented as neutral, and there wasn't that immediate, urgent-feeling cognitive puzzle to slot them in, as there was with literally every female person, including one's own self, in windows and storefronts.

Youth is a clearer witness to the world.

Thy left eye sees not right.

IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN to Nearside you'll certainly know of the Overview Effect— there are whole towers, observation decks and hotels named after it. The Overview Effect is what happens when a human being surveys Earth from a sizable distance out in space. The Apollo astronauts were the first to feel the full force of it: that mind-blowing moment

The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

ANDREW: Supposing someone saw you climing in? MILO: Who? You're not overlooked. ANDREW: Who knows? A dallying couple. A passing sheep rapist.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.