Quotes About Observation

I am more of an introvert person who is a little shy to get into random chat. I would rather observe people silently.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

To be honest I think watching from the sidelines is one of the most difficult things.

Being on the sidelines is no fun for me.

It is difficult to learn anything on the sidelines.

In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

There'd be days I was in the locker room with my dad doing media, and there'd be other days that I'd be with my mom in the press box and just kind of looking at stuff from that point of view. I'd see guys writing stories after the game and stuff like that. So it was cool to me to see both sides.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

I'm like a sight gag.