Quotes About Observation

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzlar?n yüzlerine, bir insanlar?n yüzlerine bak?yor, ama birbirlerinden ay?rt edemiyorlard?.

I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists.

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

Now and again I go out at night and watch for meteors. The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes.

Chúng (b?n súc v?t) nhìn l?n r?i l?i nhìn ng??i, nhìn ng??i r?i l?i nhìn l?n, má»™t lúc sau thì chúng ch?u, không th? phân bi?t ???c Ä'âu là ng??i, Ä'âu là l?n n?a.

She's beautiful," he murmured. "She's a meter across the hips, easily," said Julia. "That is her style of beauty," said Winston.

Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.

Dodici voci si alzarono furiose, e tutte erano simili. Non c'era da chiedersi ora che cosa fosse successo al viso dei maiali. Le creature di fuori guardavano dal maiale all'uomo, dall'uomo al maiale e ancora dal maiale all'uomo, ma già era loro impossibile distinguere fra i due.

Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.

It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.

Temel gerçekler görüÅŸ alanlar? d???ndayd?. Kar?ncalar gibiydiler; ancak küçük olaylar? görebiliyorlard?, büyüklerini görmekten yoksundular.

He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed. - There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers? - Yes.

Tenias que vivir dado por sentado que escuchaban hasta el ultimo sonido que hacias y que, observaban todos tus movimientos

Le creature di fuori gurdavano dal maiale all'uomo dall'uomo al maiale e ancora dal maiale all'uomo, ma già era loro impossibile distinguere fra i due.

What I have seen of our governing class does not convince me that they have that much intel- ligence.