Quotes About Observation

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

But it does move.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

When you're a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, and if you are at all intelligent you realize that you have lost something. But I think there has always been this dichotomy in a real writer. He wants to be terribly human, and he responds emotionally, but at the same time there's this cold observer who cannot cry.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

...perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Të shikosh. Sa gjë e pashpjegueshme! Ja, unë drejtoj fytyrën nga lagjet e poshtme të qytetit dhe sytë, si dy pompa të fuqishme, fillonin të thithnin dritë dhe pamje të ndryshme: tymtarë, ndonjë dru fiku të vetmuar, rrugë, kalimtarë. E ndjenin ata që unë po i thithja? Mbyll sytë. Stop. Rrjedha ndalet. I hap sytë. Rrjedha vazhdon.

By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Kad ne mogu da vidim, ne?u ni da gledam.

Jer, lakse je podneti i najneprijatniji pogled nego oci koje uporno gledaju pored vas.

Tko ne vidi sada, taj ne?e nikad vidjeti.

Jede Generation hat ihre Illusionen über die Zivilisation, die einen glauben, an ihrem Aufflammen teilzuhaben, die anderen, Zeugen ihres Erlöschens zu sein. In Wahrheit lodert und schwelt und erlischt sie immer gleichzeitig, je nachdem, unter welchem Blickwinkel wir sie betrachten.

Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. You don't look like a cop. I'm not and thank you for noticing.

You're a fascinating woman, Eve. Here we are, wet, naked, both of us half dead from a very memorable night, and still you watch me with very cool, very suspicious eyes. You're a suspicious character, Roarke.

When she heard the door behind her open, she spoke without turning. You've got a man who doesn't particularly like women as a species, considers them inferior. Well, to be fair, considers everyone inferior, but I got a definitive vibe women were lowest on his feeding chain. Called me 'miss,' she grumbled. And lived? Roarke stepped behind her and began rubbing her shoulders.

I like ass-watching." Peabody settled herself in comfortably."When I see one bigger than mine, it makes me feel good. When I see one smaller, it helps me resist eating a whole bunch of cookies. It's a productive hobby, my ass-watching