Quotes About Observation

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.

Every time I see you, I have to admit that rest of us are more uglier than I thought.

Beauty is all around you. To find it, you need love filled eyes to search for it.

- I saw the Center of the Universe, she said. - I'm looking at it right now, he said.

I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so when you think he wants you gone, it is not that. He is simply afraid to lose you.

Think with your eyes open.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

When did you stop caring? he asked.When did you start noticing? she replied.

Unfortunately, the hardest thing for people to understand is that maybe if you leave things alone, it'll be better than stepping in and trying to do something.

We observe, and are always asking ourselves the question, why it is that in the Western world intellectuals tend to be collectivists. Certainly one reason is that by nature their whole interest is in questioning things, including whatever society they're in. But in a collectivist society they can't speak up because of suppression, whereas in a free society they can. So the only intellectuals heard from tend to be collectivists.

It is said that a person who has the eyes to see can penetrate to the core of a person's character, no matter how old that person might be.

You have only to see what you see and feel what you feel.

Main Street is as dead as ever. There's a blinding white light at the water-tower end of it and Jesus standing in the centre of it in a pale blue robe with his arms out, palms up, like he's saying how the hell would I know? I'm just a carpenter.

I feel safe in the car, alone and protected. I can see people milling about in the parking lot but they can't see me. Well, they can but they think I'm insane so they look away which is the same as being invisible.

Salome volvió a reír. No me había dado cuenta de lo mucho que ríe, como su madre, como todas las mujeres. Ahorran saliva para reír.

Someone has been sawing off all the branches of the tree outside my dining room window. I like to sit in my T-shirt and panties at the dining room table first thing in the morning and listen to the uneaten mourning doves and write. The branches covered virtually the entire window and prevented the neighbors from seeing me sitting here in my underwear. But now the branches are coming away one by one and revealing me to my neighbors slowly like a puzzle taking shape.

Svitalo je, kada je Filip stigao na kaptolski kolodvor. Dvadeset i tri godine nije ga zapravo bilo u ovom zakutku, a znao je još uvijek sve kako dolazi: i truli slinavi krovovi i jaka buka fratarskog tornja i siva, vjetrom isprana jednokatnica na dnu mra?nog drvoreda.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.