Quotes About Observation

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

It's kind of like an out of body experience, watching my words being spoken by the actors, watching the portrayal of me by John David Washington.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad.

I can always tell what kind of a time I'm having at a party by the look on my wife's face.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.