Quotes About Observation

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.

And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

This is how we must look to God.

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.

The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The

And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything is a self-potrait. Everything is a diary.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

I write: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

And since God can't control us," he says, "all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived, he says, his face outlined against the stars in the driver's window, and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. The drop of his forehead, his brow, the slope of his nose, his eyelashes and the curve of his eyes, the plastic profile of his mouth, talking, these are all outlined in black against the stars.

They always knew the phase of the moon, but seldom the day of the week.

Si sabes dónde mirar, encontrarás un pene en cada página de la revista Cosmopolitan.

How many bodybuilders does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It takes four. One bodybuilder to screw in the bulb, and three others to watch and say, "Really, dude, you look huge!

My job is to notice the details. To be an impartial witness. Everything is always research. My job isn't to feel anything.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.

A la gente que amas les puedes hacer cosas peores que matarlos. Lo normal es quedarse mirando cómo el mundo lo hace por ti. Solamente tienes que leer un periódico.

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One time, a roadrunner watched her take a shit, her squatting form framed by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.