Quotes About Observation

It's not working," Mary said quietly, and Cat had to reluctantly admit she was right. Sean and Emma couldn't have had more distance between them if they were in different counties. Cat and Mary were smooshed together in front of the kitchen sink, watching the party through the window. Sean on one end of the yard, Emma on the other. "Why are they being so stubborn?" Mary snorted. "He's a Kowalski. I'm not sure what Emma's excuse is.

This gives us two whys. Why do people still read Byomkesh? Why do we need a hot afternoon in a quiet house in a small town to discover Byomkesh?

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Did she imagine the look of disappointment which flickered across Luciana's face, or did she just imagine it?

Glancing aside, for Liadens counted a too-long stare at the face as rudeness

Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun

I wanted to go and stand inside a blossoming fruit tree, a cherry, and look up, into it, and see the bright ganglia of blue sky, and the many gathered skirts of the multiple blooms

As a child, he'd peered at the camera, as if trying to see into it, to its engineering

I sat on the air above it and looked down on its uninhabitable beauty.

I recognize the fog in the air, the shining of her dark hair that curls around a finger like a night wood shaving, I know her thrill and fear of being observed

Last thing, at dusk, I leaned out the hotel window, like a seal sticking halfway out of the concave comber it is riding.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Would you not marry even for love?" "Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed. So I think the lesson learned is never to love." "The lesson is to love wisely," he replied.

His brown eyes were set back in deep hollows, as though he looked out from a place of shadow on all the verities of the world.

I have seen the greatest beauty. The wonders of the world, and the wonders of my eye.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

You can observe a lot just by watching. —YOGI BERRA

The thing I noticed immediately about Crosby the first time I saw him in the Penguins' dressing room that September was his thighs. They were the circumference of good-sized tree trunks.

Before I even saw him in shorts, I knew his legs would probably be like tree trunks. When I finally saw them, I was like, 'Whoa!

He's a sponge. His eyes are wide open. You can see him absorbing his surroundings, feeding off everything that's going on. No matter how good you get, you can never stop learning. He gets that. It's

There is no doubt that they 'take their pleasure sadly,'" noted an Australian visitor to Gorky Park. "Among the many thousands there we saw scarcely a smile, though we assumed that they were enjoying themselves.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.