Quotes About Observation

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

You can learn a lot about someone by his teeth. Or her teeth. Especially vampires. For some of us, hygiene goes out the window when our body temperature drops. We might not need much in the way of deodorant, but I swear—a little Listerine never hurt anybody.

Adrian said, "You sure know how to win friends and influence people." "That's why they call me Raylene. It's Greek for 'charming.' " "You're so full of shit," he observed.

A woman with long, blonde hair stood for a moment on the other side of the door. She looked similar to his date. Was she entering or leaving the coffee house? Before Paul could confirm her identity or stand and run after her, she strode away and disappeared in the crowd.

Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched.

One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It's like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.

It's a useful way to see what's there. A lot of times, it isn't much.

More things are learnt in the woods than from books; trees and rocks will teach you things not to be heard elsewhere. You will see for yourselves that honey may be gathered from stones and oil from the hardest rock. . . . St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Being seen through, with wisdom and detachment. And being found, not to have a big booger hanging out of his nose, but to be of some mysterious value.

my exes who waited within bluetooth range could see me dolled up. After

It's amazing how quickly the mind switches from figuring out a situation to commenting on it.

While airports are particularly good places to hunt for Indian stupidity, many other Indian processes are retarded too.

O Danúbio, pensei, era o Danúbio mas não era azul, era amarelo, a cidade toda era amarela, os telhados, o asfalto, os parques, engraçado isso, uma cidade amarela, eu pensava que Budapeste fosse cinzenta, mas Budapeste era amarela.

Com taquicardia, respiro fundo, olho ao redor, só não me lembro mais por que eu tanto queria atravessar a rua. Este lado é como um espelho do outro, com os mesmos pedestres aflitos para atravessar de volta, os mesmos minúsculos botecos com idênticas bundas grandes do lado de fora, além de uma banca de jornal igual a todas, onde vejo exposta uma primeira página tenebrosa.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

The plural of anecdote is data.

Did you ever notice: when you put the two words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS"?

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.

Whatever else astronomy may or may not be who can doubt it to be the most beautiful of the sciences?

...see, when I talk of eyes, the stars come out! Whose eyes are they? If they are angels' eyes, why do they look down here and see good men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night?

Now rising you may see with naked eye The brilliant Star in Corde Scorpii, Whose changing colours on a Summer's night, When culminating, shine so clear and bright, And twinkling change with red and silver light.

But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.