Quotes About Observation

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Life was like a prism; what you saw depended on how you turned the glass.

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.

to gain an understanding of a world that you know little about, you must encounter it firsthand

Give every data point the attention and scrutiny it deserves, and keep an open mind for alternative explanations that may explain your observations as well as (or better than) your pet theories.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

Even though Tom wasn't moving, he seemed to be a little farther away. For the first time Benny realized that there were other people in the hallways. They were indistinct, more of a sense of movement in the gray light rather than specific shapes. He thought he recognized one of them, though. "Chong?" The figure stopped moving, but he stood with his back to Benny. "Tom-is that Chong?" "Is that Chong?" Benny asked again. "Is...is he going with you?

Spotting the same car three times could have been a coincidence. Kim Kardashian's boobs could be real, too, and that's about as likely.

That's stupid," said Benny. "That's people," said the supervisor.

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

You can learn much about an enemy when you watch him win. We will watch and learn . . . and plan.

A 1998—and didn't there always seem to be a 1998 coin in every handful of change?—and a 2013. Still new looking even though it was a few years old now. The coins were still warm. Warmer now for

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Sometiimes when you look at a person all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave

When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

They all watched silently as she walked toward her cabin, but when she got to the doorway she stopped and turned around. She stood for a moment with her chin lifted and her eyes closed. What on earth was she doing? Granada wondered.

Sometimes, when you look at a person, all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.

Is it just me,' Kipps said, 'or does that boy need punching?' 'It's not just you.

Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins." I blinked. "What? Why? What's George got to do with anything?" "What a person looks like doesn't bother him much, or hadn't you noticed?