Quotes About Observation

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

The observer is the observed.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

La verdadera vida de Carmela acababa de comenzar y ella no tenía dudas de lo que eso comportaba. Permanecería muda y expectante entre los poderosos y los extraños. Nadaría como un pececillo y aprendería a respirar bajo el agua.

Knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

And yes, I know I saw something. We both did. But knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.

Ich finde sie lustig, ihre heutigen Tänze, lustig zum Schauen, diese existentialistische Hopserei, wo jeder für sich allein tanzt, seine eignen Faxen schwingt, verwickelt in die eignen Beine, geschüttelt wie von einem Schüttelfrost, alles etwas epileptisch, aber lustig, sehr temperamentvoll, muß ich sagen, aber ich kann das nicht.

The ladies' mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats—they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn't say it.

No ha entendido que los sistemas cambian y que, mientras no sea el centro de uno de ellos, debe mantenerse prudentemente en la sombra.

A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird?

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Those who missed His Majesty's arrival that night missed it not because of evil acts or malice; no, they missed it because they simply weren't looking. Little has changed in the last two thousand years, has it?