Quotes About Observation

Watch the shrimp and eventually you'll find the goby, that was his belief.

She was pretty, he had to admit, with very delicate features. But there was something else, too. There are thorns in her eyes—that was the only way he could express it. For a moment, he thought she might have felt left out because he spoke to her friend first and not to her, but as she smiled, he realised the thorns were always there. A true lady would never have eyes like that.

Jack is looking at Anne but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? A) Yes B) No C) Cannot be determined Answer A, B, or C before you look ahead.

I remembered that my father and mother had told me to speak less in such situations; the less you say, the more you'll likely hear. That's the way you learn from others.

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We know the minute he's going plastic. Shit, Charlie and I have been watching that ass for forty-odd years; we know when the moneymaker's shaking and when it's being told what to do.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

She was staring out a window and he was taken, as he had been in the bookstore, by her length and line.

You can't tell a horse's gait till she's broke.

A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.

When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

Rosie had what are termed 'grateful looks'. She was grateful if anybody looked. Few did, not even Jack. Leroy Baker was a poor example of strength.

The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters of that is ears.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

The discretion of the watcher versus the privacy of the watched was just another arms race; this one, I could see, would run and run.

Debo decir que siento cierta debilidad por los grupos étnicos margnianados de la actualidad. Parece como si los antropólogos siempre estuviesen acechándolos, como si su unidad familiar media comprendiera tres hijos y un antropólogo que se sienta con ellos y les pregunta qué están desayunando.

that if we keep our focus too tight, we miss the rest of the world swirling around us.

To see the past from the vantage point of the present is to be able to judge the effect of the past on the present.

A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.

Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing--a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B.