Quotes About Observation

True it is, miss, though I blush to say it! With his own eyes did Totton see him!''He could hardly have seen him with anyone else's eyes!' snapped Miss Trent, her temper fraying.

Instead of rising, as a hostess should, and shaking hands, she only turned her head and smiled at him. Lady Denny saw that smile, and, glancing swiftly at Damerel, saw the smile that answered it. As well might they have kissed!

She bent again over her page. 'I do not think one would say that he is precisely handsome,' she wrote temperately, 'but his countenance is benevolent. His head is a queer shape, and he is inclined to corpulence.

found little to say beyond the merest commonplace throughout supper, but this silence passed unnoticed in the spate of Lord Bridlington's

thought. Lady Bridlington gives an

Miss Trent thought that she had seldom seen Patience in such good looks, and reflected that nothing became a girl so well as a glow of pleasurable excitement. She was inevitably dimmed by Tiffany, who was in great beauty, and wearing a dashing bonnet with a very high crown and a huge, upstanding poke framing her face, but there was something very taking about her countenance; and her eyes, though lacking the brilliance of Tiffany's, held a particularly sweet expression.

Outside I saw her sitting in the wheelchair, hands folded on her lap, and I knew I was living the moment that says nothing, that will allow nothing said of consequence.

The matter of art in photography may come to this: It is the defining of observation full and felt.

Early on de Tocqueville correctly observed that this democracy was one in which "men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, 'til each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals.…" (my italics).

Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead.

where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.

Violet looked over at Grandfather. "You're right," she said. "She is a great singer. Even better than she sounds in her kitchen singing about cows and soup." Grandfather

Spotty can run—faster—than—Watch!

If you are a Clown, Be on the lookout For things in a crown.

I want you to see the spring where the water comes from. Be careful of the coconuts. They may fall on your head. If you hear one coming from the trees, you must get out from under fast.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

As each person observes their world, one configuration emerges from the ethereal background in perfect synchronicity with a synthesized integration of memory and experience, all of which exists enfolded in the parent consciousness. We ourselves are the evolution of time. The cosmos exists inside of us, as real as we exist inside the cosmos.

The stewardess's lips shine, glossed and pink and perfect. But when she smiles, there's a smudge of color on her tooth. Olivia taps her own tooth to indicate the streak, and the stewardess nods a thank-you. People who keep quiet in such situations, who let others walk around with wedged-in poppy seeds or toothpaste on their chins, those people are a different breed. The ones who either value their own comfort above all or who feel themselves rise when others fall.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.