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Quotes About Observation

The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.
~ Dana Gould
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.
~ Nicolas Bentley
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
~ Agatha Christie
Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
~ John Wayne
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
~ Bertrand Russell
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.
~ Alice Childress
I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
~ Darren Aronofsky
I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.
~ Mika
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
~ T. S. Eliot
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.
~ Joshua Jackson
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
~ Ben Jonson
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
~ Bertrand Russell
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
~ Jane Austen
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so
~ Rob Schneider
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
~ Charlie Huston
Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.
~ Vanessa Bayer
As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.
~ P. N. Elrod
Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
~ Wilson Mizner
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.
~ Edgar Degas
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.
~ Steven Wright