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Quotes About Observation

O akÅŸam ateÅŸ ba??nda oturdular ve oÄŸlan s?cak çorba içti ve adam sopalarda buharlar? tüten giysilerini çevirdi ve oÄŸlan mahcup olana kadar oturup onu izledi. Beni izlemekten vazgeç, baba, dedi. Tamam. Gene de izledi ama.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Her eyes above the shoulder of her partner swept across him where he stood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Concentrated populations of the deranged assume certain powers. It has an unsettling effect. You spend some time in a nuthouse and you'll see.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard
~ Cormac McCarthy
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did he see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He watched her until she was lost among the tourists. Men and women alike turning to look after her. He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Don't close your eyes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
NERO- Menomale che dici così, professore. Perché non ci trovo niente da ridere manco io. E' solo che ogni minuto che passa mi meraviglio di più. Ma possibile che non ti vedi, zuccherino? Sei trasparente come il vetro. Vedo le rotelline che ti girano dentro la testa. Gli ingranaggi. E vedo anche la luce. Una luce buona. Una luce vera. Tu non la vedi?
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's a lot of things look better at a distance
~ Cormac McCarthy
I've heard of some that was supposed to be better and I'm sure there were some better. I just never did see any of em.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The
~ Cormac McCarthy
That old she-painter, she never left a track one. She wadn't no common kind of painter.
~ Cormac McCarthy
for what could be said to occur unobserved?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Alone in the empty shell of a house the squatter watched through the moteblown glass a rimshard of bonecolored moon come cradling up over the black balsams on the ridge, ink trees a facile hand sketched against the paler dark of winter heavens.
~ Cormac McCarthy
A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn't chase the bird away.
~ Cornelia Funke
I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six." Of
~ Cornelia Funke
Cara Elinor, evidentemente lei è nata nella storia sbagliata» osservò Dita di Polvere. Erano le prime parole che pronunciava dall'inizio del viaggio. «Nella storia sbagliata? Vorrà dire nell'epoca sbagliata. Sì, anch'io l'ho pensato spesso». «La chiami un po' come le pare» replicò lui.
~ Cornelia Funke
Non sembrano luoghi pericolosi» constatò mentre superavano l'ennesima casetta rosa. «Perché guardi sempre a sinistra!» le disse Dita di Polvere. «Tutte le cose hanno un lato chiaro e uno scuro. Da' un'occhiata a destra».
~ Cornelia Funke
so silent you could almost have forgotten he was there.
~ Cornelia Funke
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
~ Cory Doctorow
The great mystery of being a human being is trying to figure out WTF all those other human beings are doing.
~ Cory Doctorow
Even the bystander vegans couldn't ignore the racket.
~ Cory Doctorow