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Quotes About Observation

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
~ Natasha Lyonne
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'
~ Richard Jeni
There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of it, faster than any man will. If you really want to know... It's just the way it is.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
~ Samuel Richardson
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
~ Samuel Richardson
When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.
~ Susan Anton
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
~ Will Rogers
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
~ Mark Twain
An' I learned about women from 'er.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.
~ Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.
~ Miles Watson, Cage Life
Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.
~ Edan Lepucki, California
Dear God, he prayed irreverently, was her blouse even legal?
~ Sheri Webber, Dawn Rising
I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.
~ Patrick Modiano
Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.
~ Rachilde, The Juggler
It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
~ Chelsea Handler
The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.
~ Jennifer Coolidge
I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.
~ Phoebe Robinson
I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.
~ Baron Vaughn