Quotes About Observation

Hathin stared out across the water and deliberately let her eyes unfocus slightly. It did no good lodging your gaze on the waves as they slid and fractured. The trick was to see nothing and everything, until you started to notice any tear or break in the rhythms of the water.

Children are little priests of their parents, watching their every gesture and expression for signs of their divine will.

She could find no purchase on the older woman's marble-smooth countenance. There were no cracks to give her a view into her soul.

and it's tricky because she always makes me feel like, well, you know what it's like, when somebody's watching you and you feel it like dead leaves down the back of your sweater...

Looking at the rich and powerful was dangerous, like peering into the sun.

Do you really imagine that your scrawl of a map has just sealed the fate of Toll and Mandelion?" Clent asked quietly but coolly. "Madam, it will make no real difference. We are simply not that important. We are ants watching the clash of dragons and trying not to get cooked to a crisp by creatures that have barely noticed us.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

his knack for catching human idiosyncrasies betrayed by pose, dress or movement. A biography allows us to travel with him through time and to gain some idea of how his many experiences stimulated and enriched his art.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.

Never trust a man who when left alone with a tea cosey... doesn't try it on.

My father once dropped fifty pence, bent down to pick it up and it hit him on the back of the neck. He used to wake up at night to see if he'd lost any sleep.

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.

and everyone would stare at me because they were starving.

God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

Tamaki to Kyoya: I thought you wanted more because your eyes don't show satisfaction now.

If you catch him, hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil, an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids one tear, his only possession, like the bee's sting, slips. Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over, cool as from undergrouns springs and pure enough to drink.

The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

An uninterested spectator sees nothing; or, what is worse, sees wrongly.