Quotes About Observant

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?

What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.

There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish - never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor); or that he was a gentleman, which showed itself in the way he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and in his manners of course to women.

I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first.

So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

What Mr Chivery thought of these things, or how much or how little he knew about them, was never gathered from himself. It has been already remarked that he was a man of few words; and it may be here observed that he had imbibed a professional habit of locking everything up.

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much

People who make no noise are dangerous.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

I take everything someone says and the way they say it to heart. I just notice everything. I'm very, like, I know what I want. I know what I want to do and what I don't want to do. It may seem like I'm care-free but I'm care-expensive.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

I've always been, since I was a little kid, and my son is quite observant, too.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.