Quotes About Observant

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

want them to be as alert as a mouse at a cat show.

The stoats are on guard, at every point, and they make the best sentinels in the world.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

It's a cat. Boy, you couldn't slip anything past me tonight.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Up close like this, I can see that her skin is smooth and clear except for two freckles on her right cheek,and her eyes are gray-green that makes me think of fall.It's the eyes that get me.They are large an arresting,as if she sees everything.As warm as they are,they are busy,no-bullshit eyes,the kind that can look right into you..

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Most dancers are very quiet.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

Just making sure, Miss 'I'm a Quick Study.

I love caddies because caddies will tell you the truth and use very few words doing it.

Often it is the quiet ones, those who give out less at first glance, who hide greater depths, and who secretly wield greater power.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

What I had against Mr. Dawson, said Miss Cornelia, was the unmerciful length of his prayers at a funeral. It actually came to such a pass that people said they envied the corpse. He surpassed himself at Letty Grant's funeral. I saw her mother was on the point of fainting so I gave him a good poke in the back with my umbrella and told him he'd prayed long enough.

Be not heedless of the Lord for even the blink of an eye, Lest He direct His attention toward you, and find you unaware.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

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.

It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting

I don't like taking my eyes away from what's happening right in front of me, not for a second.