429 Quotes About Observation

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.

Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.

Der Satiriker ist ein gekränkter Idealist: er will die Welt gut haben, sie ist schlecht, und nun rennt er gegen das Schlechte hin.

His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the tips of his spindly fingers touch the words his mouth forms, his words turn dark before my eyes and disintegrate like twisted people caught embracing the metallic surface of a detonating atomic bomb, then his breath blows away the ashes making way for fresh words.

I observe life more than I live it.

Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation.

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.