Quotes About Observation

Funny how he could always tell exactly where Michelangelo's attention was, even when Angelo was pretending it was somewhere else.

She studied him; he did look drawn, with the waxen countenance she had come to associate with his need.

A silent observer in the early morning could mean many things, for a prisoner, and none likely to her benefit.

Kit caught Will's eye, and the smile he sent down might have melted Will like a candle end. Lovesick fool, Will thought, and looked down before someone could notice his silly grin and draw an entirely correct conclusion.

glanced ostentatiously at my bangle. Blood alcohol content .01%, heart rate leveling off at 72 beats per minute, time 11:42 p.m.

He tilts his head to one side, studying me like a judge eyeing a show dog. The effect is ruined when he sneezes.

If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.

The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.

and looked and looked our infant sight away.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Is it right to be watching strangers in a play / in this strangest of theatres? / What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life / in our bodies, we are determined to rush / to see the sun the other way around?

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.

The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.

What do you want me to say?" "I wish you would say something. Our life goes by without any comment.

We observe small rites, but we defend ourselves against that terrible memory that is stronger than will. We defend ourselves from the rooms, the scenes, the objects that make for hallucination, that make the senses start up and fasten upon a ghost. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

By habit, she looked round the room she sat in. Anything she could do to it had been done; what it could do to her seemed without limit.

But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.

Alienor raised her eyebrows. "I can see straight through your ruse," she said. "Even if it is not plain on your face, Aimery de Niort is giving the game away." She glanced toward the young knight who was holding his own horse at the ready, his expression expectant and smug.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

He watched her hurry off to her car and back down the driveway too fast--as always--cutting the wheel too soon as usual. "Mailbox!" he yelled when she was still ten feet from slamming on the brakes. She gazed at him with surprise, her hazel eyes holding his for a moment, then she laughed and continued out of the driveway on a safer path.

I ragazzi apprendono come comportarsi dalle persone con cui vivono. [...]

For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has never been determined. There was some thought that by the time she grew up they would give out Oscars for Best Novel (and that by then she would have written one), or that maybe she would just get some kind of honorary Oscar for her distinctive life observations made in everyday conversations, or the occasional letter.

I watched and I learned. There is tumult, there is aggravation. There is love. For a mother, there is no such thing as excess.

The bridge was geologically ancient, an impassive observer, surrounded by life that was fleeting in comparison: trees that would only survive hundreds of years, tourists who would only live decades, insects that would thrive only for weeks.