Observation quotations

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◆ What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

- Yosa Buson99

◆ To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

- Paul Valéry99

◆ One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

- Benedict Cumberbatch99

◆ (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

- Rudyard Kipling99

◆ We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

- Robin McKinley99

◆ But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti99

◆ If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she'll still display it on her desk at work.

- Brian P. Cleary99

◆ You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

- Tsitsi Dangarembga99

◆ I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

- Natalie Lloyd99

◆ It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

- Shannon Hale99

◆ However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

- Honoré de Balzac99

◆ Sane is rich and powerful; Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor put in cages.

- Hunter S. Thompson99

◆ But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

- Jeff Lindsay99

◆ By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

- H.E. Davey99