Quotes About Observation

Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.

Theer's no use saying pigs conner fly, when you see them catching swallows.

Despite our daily observations to the contrary, I assure you that children are, by nature, spiritual beings, until we destroy through our example. In my own field of language I remember, and still can see, there being no problem here. A child knows, whether it be in the traditional structure of a fairy tale, or the special use of an archaism, when Mystery is engaged.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of.

The woman, early thirties with frosted brown hair,

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

Everything looked wonderful until I noticed the anchovies. "Really?" I said. "Hairy little fish?" "It's not a real Caesar salad without anchovies." "I appreciate hairy dogs; I don't appreciate hairy fish.

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

He understood that things appear different in daytime and nighttime, even though they are the same.

D-SAT, police lingo for those who didn't see a thing.

He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.

she did everything as if God were watching her: never threw bread on the fire (which was feeding the devil)

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Glasgow is a magnificent city," said McAlpin. "Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

All data is stale. The photons reaching your eyes are stale. They tell you that you are looking at something real, but you have no information that the objects before you still exist. They may have vanished into oblivion the instant those photons took wing.

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.

It took time for light to reach the Eye from distant galaxies. The further out the Eye looked, the further it looked back into the history of the universe. Galaxies ten million light years away were glimpsed as they were ten million years earlier; those a billion light years away offered a window into the universe when it was a billion years younger than the present epoch.

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.