Quotes About Observation

What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.

GENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th [the 27 Nivôse, i.e., January 16] stated that I was only in observation throughout the battle. I don't wish any such observation on him, for he would have shit in his pants. Salute and Brotherhood! ALEX. DUMAS

if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto.

If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt.

There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.

As we drive up the river road, there are sixty thousand trees which I see but do not touch. Like me, Amanda is confined in the speeding Jeep, but she touches every tree.

They glared at her as if she were a piece of modern art at a county fair. A hostile sneer here, a puzzled laugh there...

And one man in Nebraska thought the telegraph wires were a kind of tightrope; he watched the line carefully ''to see the man run along the wires with the letter bags.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

How is a juggler you can't hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all?

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.

Si dejaba de mirarla no sólo ella quedaría fuera del orden de las cosas, sino también lo que estaba alrededor y a lo mejor él mismo.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?' 'I'm looking now.

But stars can explode, disappear. Besides, what we see when we look at them may no longer be there. Some could have died thousands of years ago and we're just now getting their light. Old information looking like news.

Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don't love you or your work.

And you look like the north side of a southbound mule.

they have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the colour of the sky... their eyes do not bite

She didn't even know she had a neck until Jude remarked on it, or that her smile was anything but the spreading of her lips until he saw it as a small miracle.

Two pennies and an insult were well spent if it meant seeing the spectacle of whitefolks making a spectacle of themselves.

Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.

Now I can look at things again because she's here to see them too.

If there is somebody with bluer eyes than mine, then maybe there is somebody with the bluest eyes. The bluest eyes in the whole world.