429 Quotes About Observation

What I do best are the absurdities of daily life: I observe, add up these observations, increase them to the nth degree and draw the square root from them, but with a different factor from the one I increased them by.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

We make it especially hard for others to observe our trait when it means we are observing and not "behaving," at least at first. Further, we are so responsive to our environments that we can be something like chameleons when around others, doing whatever it takes to fit in.

The source of all light is in the eye.

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.

Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.

..he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the base of the fruit; carefully he detached the friable, cardboard-flavoured filaments that run down its surface like meridian lines, in a word peeling his banana the way the anthropoid will forever peel his. He threw one of the filaments into the fly cage..

We don't think. We think we think.

Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.