Quotes About Observation

Events are like telephone poles, streaming back past the observation platform of a speeding train.

Elevators are brilliant. I'm going to stand here a little longer. The good thing about riding in an elevator as a grown-up is that nobody questions my being in the elevator. Nobody suspects me of just riding the elevator. I look like I'm one of the others.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

After secretly observing the unstudied grace of her movements, the most celebrated picture-maker of the province burned the implements of his craft, and began life anew as a trainer of performing elephants.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

L0hengrin saw me noticing this and nodded her approval. But she didn't say anything

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

As I stared out at the grim skyline, a bright sliver of the sun peeked over the horizon. Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

There's no way they weren't aware that we were watching them. They wanted us to see! It was like they were running a nonstop, year-round episode of How It's Made by Aliens.

So I remained stuck at school. I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

The half dozen GSS employees inside all avoided making direct eye contact. I could guess what all of them were thinking: Meet the new boss, weird as the old boss.

It looks just like Rivendell," Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.

I RODE THE turbo elevator back up to the observation deck. The moment the elevator doors swished open and I stepped into the large domed room, the odor of burning cannabis filled my nose. The smell grew increasingly stronger the farther I ventured into the room, as did the familiar strains of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, punctuated by fits of only slightly suppressed laughter.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.

The heavier the burden, the longer they look at you. And Miss Julie looked at me a long, long time.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ileana: la Galaxia de Andrómeda, a 700 000 años luz, que se puede mirar a simple vista en una noche clara, está más cerca que tú. Otros ojos solitarios estarán mirándome desde Andrómeda, en la noche de ellos. Yo a ti no te veo. Ileana: la distancia es tiempo, y el tiempo vuela. A 200 millones de millas por hora el universo se está expandiendo hacia la Nada.

I write from the worm's-eye point of view.

Thus for Haeckel, to know is not to conceptualize but to see. What nature is, is visible on its surface.