Quotes Tagged "observe"

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.

It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere – us – I know I have a chance.

One needs to keep reminding themselves of higher goals at all times while observing the outcomes of smaller actions.

Many of my quotes are observational.

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

Eyes speak the unsaid words. You need to be a good observer to understand them.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.