Quotes About Observation

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn't listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.