Quotes About Observation

trials held at 'aero shows' on Southampton Water were attended by 'alert Germans

there wasn't much to say about Klaus Hering except that he was about thirty years old, slimly built, fair-haired and, thanks in part to his necktie, getting on for tall.

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I

There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened.—Anonymous

They say eyes clear with age.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Earth never grieves, I thought, walking across the park, watching seagulls cruising greedily above the ground looking for heaven knows what. Don't you think it's a good line? A very good line

Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary into what it is… a moment in time; an observed fragment of eternity.

Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug.

Han log blekt, som om han egentligen aldrig sett något le men hade läst en bok om hur man gjorde.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Malcolm Muggeridge captured this parting of the ways in a gloomy piece for Encounter: 'Each time I return to England from abroad,' he observed, 'the country seems a little more run-down than when I went away; its streets a little shabbier, its railway carriages and restaurants a little dingier; the editorial pretensions of its newspapers a little emptier, and the vainglorious rhetoric of its politicians a little more fatuous.'29

Aristotle made much of observation and strict classification of data in his studies. For this reason he is often considered as the father of empirical science and scientific method.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Je comprends alors qu'on ne voit pas les choses quand on regarde les êtres.

One has an excellent view of the war from the windows at the Ritz.

Amaba el tiempo hasta el punto de quedarse viéndolo pasar

Ovidio ha scritto che il tempo distrugge le cose, ma si è sbagliato. Soltanto gli uomini distruggono le cose. E distruggono gli altri uomini. E distruggono il mondo degli uomini. Il tempo li guarda fare e disfare. E scorre indifferente.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

It is only in winter that you can tell which trees are evergreen.

See, many people can recognize an enchanting world within every raindrop rested atop the petals of a blossoming pink dahlia, but fail to notice how captivating they can still be when sat upon faded glass.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer—or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.