Quotes About Observation

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

The man who walks with Henslow.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.