Quotes About Observation

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.