Quotes About Observation

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

I was distracted suddenly from these pleasant thoughts by noticing that, like the eyes in certain portraits, Heather's nipples seemed to have the uncanny ability to follow you around the room. This is the kind of observation that once made, cannot be unmade. Unfortunately.

Vinny rarely leaves the house so when she does it's an occasion of some importance to her. She spends a lot of time looking forward to a glimpse of the outside world and then, when she returns, even more time complaining about it.

What do you think you're doing?" she asked when Jackson took his own phone out of his pocket. Another chippy woman, Jackson thought with a sigh. Chippy women wherever he went. Chippy mothers who begat chippy daughters and so the circle of chippiness was unbroken.

Sister Michael turned and looked at him, and, despite her plump, jolly face, she had nuns' eyes, and nuns' eyes, Jackson knew, could see right inside your head, so he nodded respectfully at the statue. Sanguis Christi, inebria me.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.