Quotes About Observation

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. "Well, look at that." I studied my free wrist. "Denied. Good-bye

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

You have to live a life to become a writer.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

All I want now is to look at life.

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

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.