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Quotes About Observation

And whowasit youwasit propped the pot in the yard and whatinthe nameofsen lukeareyou rubbinthe sideofthe flureofthe lobbywith Shite! will you have a plateful? Tak.
~ James Joyce
We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.
~ James Joyce
Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.
~ James Joyce
The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.
~ James Joyce
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
~ James Joyce
Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.
~ James Joyce
He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat's udder.
~ James Joyce
peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth
~ James Joyce
He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.
~ James Joyce
skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his
~ James Joyce
him wearily halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as he propped his
~ James Joyce
and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.
~ James Joyce
Elmac?k kemikleri yüzüne sert bir ifade veriyordu ama koyu renk kaÅŸlar?n?n alt?ndan dünyaya bakarken baÅŸkalar?ndan bir ba???lama bekleyip çoÄŸu kez hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸram?? bir insan izlenimi veren gözlerinde sertlik yoktu.
~ James Joyce
Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field.
~ James Joyce
He turned his face over a shoulder, rere regardant. Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.
~ James Joyce
A side eye at my Hamlet hat
~ James Joyce
To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
~ James Joyce
Kai kurie žmon?s, - sako Blumas, - mato krisl? kito akyje, bet nemato r?sto savojoj.
~ James Joyce
He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavor in secret
~ James Joyce
But lassies are trained for it, in a manner of speaking; it's part of the growing-up process for them, young females. It doesn't happen with boys, just if you're a lassie, you've got to learn how not to talk; plus how not to look, you get trained how not to look. How not to look and how not to talk. You get trained how not to do things.
~ James Kelman
There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.
~ James Kelman
Pretty damn boring to be a spectator in your own life.
~ James Lee Burke
I also smell it on you.
~ James Lee Burke
If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention.
~ James Lileks