Quotes About Observation

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.

I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.

And if they tell you you're not a team player, just congratulate them on being so observant.

In Baltimore it's 6:42!

Today, I want to tell you about little Danny Pendejo.

My interest in "issues" is merely to point out how badly we're doing, not to suggest a way we might do better. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in low they "ought to be.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.

When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. Mr. Casaubon, on the contrary, stood rayless.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them

Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

Mr. Johnson's character was not much more exceptional than his double chin.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.

Celia looked up at him like a thoughtful kitten.