Quotes About Observation

See that girl just ahead of us? With that headband?" "Yeah?" "She's Debbie Reynolds's daughter." There was a slight pause before she added, "She thinks she's so great." Wow, right? Uncanny how she so perfectly nailed me straight out of the box. I just thought I was incredible.

Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.

We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade

As Samuel Pepys would chirp—

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

God made the universe out of nothing, and if you look real close, you can tell.

She gets away from you, I am. She's as big as a lynx. Look at

I wondered why Westerners were so enthralled with a religious activity that didn't incite much enthusiasm even among its own people in India.

Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.

People are not, of course, perfectly rational. No reader of Shakespeare, Dickens, or Joyce, or observer of daily life, is unaware of this point.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.

I can recognize any one by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal. [at the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley, according to E.J. Trelawny]

doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?

It's concerning you both; for doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?" 

I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines

It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.

Seeing may be believing, but, in order to understand what you are seeing, logic is necessary.

Most things move th' under-jaw, the crocodile not.Most things sleep lying, th' elephant leans or stands.

I drink to make other people interesting." or "I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Days change so many things -- yes, hours -- we see so differently in suns and showers.