Quotes About Observation

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"

Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

She paused, cast her gaze to Tehol Beddict, and slowly frowned. 'You are rather shy for an emperor,' she observed. Tehol refuted that with the brightest smile, and it transformed him, and suddenly Lostara forgot all about the man's martial-looking brother. Spirits of the sand, those eyes…

Without a sense of humor, you are blind to so much in this world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

Understand: we exist for the sole purpose of being witness to existence. This and this alone is our collective contribution to all that has been created. We serve to bring existence into being. Without eyes to see, nothing exists.

Too easy to conclude, with a private sneer, that men were simple. Granted, had they been strangers, they might well be circling and sniffing each other's anuses right now.

I am no critic. Merely a humble observer who, when able, speaks on behalf of the tongue-tied multitudes otherwise known as the commonalty, or, more precisely, the rabble. An audience, understand, wholly incapable of self-realization or cogent articulation, and thus possessors of depressingly vulgar tastes when not apprised of what they truly like, if only they knew it. My meagre gift, therefore, lies in the communication of an aesthetic framework upon which most artists hang themselves

The guard's gaze was on him, the eyes hard and piercing.

Kulp saw something crumbling into ruins behind the lad's light-blue eyes.

Kruppe is generous enough this morning to disregard dubious observation regarding his eating habits and the habits of his orifices.

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In truth, he was far less haunted by his immortality than most T'lan Imass. There was always something else to see, after all.

Brother, you look unwell.' Appearances deceive, Greyfrog. For example, you have never looked prettier.

It's the game of seeing all but reacting to nothing. Until necessity forces the issue.

A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We'd never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. 'I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.' 'Me too.' 'And that's why we're still alive.' 'Aye.