Quotes About Observation

Walking, reading, watching the light change.

And he would not see that the tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him." Poe

I reread an observation by Willa Cather with a mixture of amusement and startled recognition: "THERE ARE ONLY two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

But it does move!

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Si uno se pone a pensar sobre ello, la meta última de la vida humana es algo que carece de importancia, es como un enjambre de abejas. Si uno lo deja estar acabada lamentándolo, pero si lo coges los insectos te picarán, por lo que es preferible dejarlo estar y observarlo sin tocarlo.

We've all done this, because we're so mature. You see a cow on the side of the road, stick your head out the window and go "Mooo!" Like we expect the cow to think, "Hey, there's another cow, driving that car! How can he afford that?"

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

She looked Spencer over, tip to toe, as though she were considering buying him. Then she smiled her friendliest smile and said, "You're rather short, aren't you?" "Don't worry honey," said Mankiewicz, trying desperately to extinguish Spencer's glare. "He'll cut you down to size.

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

To which you manifest is before you.

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence, and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly.

It looks hard," said Michael. "Not squishy like poop.

You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.

By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that.

Some family,' I said. 'No one's paying attention to the mother. Who could blame her if she took off? Look at them.' A minute or so went by, and then Mrs. Windermere said, in a voice as soft as summer blue air, 'Skinny Delivery Boy, you have it all wrong. Look how she's standing close to her little one. She's looking around to watch for the next spectacular thing that's going to come into his life.' And I'm not lying, she was right.

Like I said, you can tell a whole lot about someone from the way cows are around him.