Quotes About Observation

Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.

Ludens felt that everyone around him was living in the present, a place where he certainly could not live.

But what words exactly did he use? People who aren't writers never describe things exactly .

Time had never been visible to him before.

When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.

David, que se disponía a correr su cortina contra el oscuro crepúsculo, se detuvo y clavó la vista en el jardín. El chico estaba de pie bajo la acacia, en la parte más cercana de la verja que separaba el jardín de Hood House del huerto. La figura estaba tan quieta y

David, que se disponía a correr su cortina contra el oscuro crepúsculo, se detuvo y clavó la vista en el jardín. El chico estaba de pie bajo la acacia, en la parte

And she looked back out of her sallow Jewish mask, the line of her mouth dead straight between the curving lips, the narrow eyes black.

As she handed it over Dr Klein gave me a keen look. Her narrow dark eyes, which seemed in the strange light to be shot with red, had the slightly Oriental appearance peculiar to certain Jewish women.

How strangely it excites people to see their dogs swimming!

There is something compelling about the sound of a fountain in a deserted place. It murmurs about what things do when no one watches them. It is the hearing of an unheard sound.

Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you've been away. It's as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe. - Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle. - Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma. - That's only good manners, ah shrugs.

We all see what we want to see.

After a while, they realise they're in Gorgie. This part of the city makes them feel like intruders. They seem to smell the Hibernian off you over here, Renton reflects; not just the gadges coming out the bookies and boozers, but the young mothers in trackies wheeling the pushchairs, and strangely, worst of all, the auld wifies with gobs like feline ringpieces, who glower witchlike as they shamble by, sick and paranoid.

Puterea oamenilor seam?n? foarte mult cu desenul. Întreaga perspectiv? se modific? o dat? cu schimbarea unghiului de vedere, È™i asta nu depinde de subiect, ci de cel care priveÈ™te.

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you?

Dors muttered to him, "Stop studying humanity. Be aware of your surroundings." "I'll try.

That's right, but it's not a mathematical proposition. It's a sociological observation and there is always the possibility of exceptions to such observations. - Dr. Mandamus to Dr. Kelden Amadiro

Re the temperature of Venus's surface No one had expected such a hot Venus

the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least—quite elderly, in fact.)

He seemed so to Hari Seldon, certainly. Seldon stopped his morning constitutional to watch him.