Observations Quotes

“High cunts are a big fuckin drag when yir feeling like this, because thir too busy enjoying their high tae notice or gie a fuck about your suffering. Whereas the piss-held in the pub wants every cunt tae git as ootay it as he is, the real junky (as opposed tae the casual user who wants a partner-in-crime) doesnae gie a fuck aboot anybody else.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Why is it that those who are the most concerned with manners rarely have any themselves?”
― Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge

“Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed.”
― Chris Geiger, The Cancer Survivors Club

“Select people in every era must work outside the boundary lines of conventional society in order to make the clearest and most penetrating observations. A person whom makes advancements that rock the cradle of civilization is always a maverick preacher.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If someone disappoints you, that someone has a problem..but if everyone disappoints you, than you have a problem.”
― Jackson Taviri

“If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Life is a constant battle of fighting your own fears and not absorbing others. Don’t fill the empty spaces of your heart with the fears of others in your life. It is the highly anxious person that will tell you that certain people and experiences need to be labeled and kept either close or at a distance. They go to great lengths to categorize things, in order to feel balance in their life because they are out of balance. Life to them is about control and making you believe that their perfect world is normal when there is nothing normal about it. Highly anxious people live through manipulating their world into what is easy and palatable to them and they can easily pull you into an unrealistic view of the world around them. You constantly have to reassess what is reasonable and what is over exaggerated because fear drives their every action.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Save time, worry about everything all at once!”
― Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2

“Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.”
― Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

“Some people choose to be wrong just to say they were always right...”
― Miguel Reynolds Brandao

“He wanted to draw her nude. Every part of her. To capture her sensuality in pen and ink: the way she relished food, slipped her fingers into her hair, stroked the stem of her wineglass. The way she lifted her arms to stretch and tugged on her lower lip with her upper one. He'd watched her raise goose bumps on her own skin simply by stroking the inside of her wrist with the tips of her fingers, yet she seemed oblivious to this part of herself.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dance Away with Me

“Empowered Women 101: Everyone wants to be a princess, but you weren't the first princess in his life. They scrubbed his floors, washed his workout clothes, picked up his dirty socks and dealt with his issues. Always remember that history leaves a pattern of what to expect. A real woman knows that the bible is a motivator, but the real instruction manual is observing the last woman's struggle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Children observe everything with caution.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing...”
― Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather

“Always let your heart sing; no musical talent needed.”
― Benny Bellamacina, Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1

“The sanction made the unsaid even more palpable, as if the thoughts had been waiting outside the room, and had at last been given permission to enter; now there was no denying their presence.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“Prof. Emi Ito said “Lailah, if you can’t explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome.”
― David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries

“...but I was not very good at hiding my displeasure at mental sleepiness and mediocrity”
― Carlene Bauer, Frances and Bernard

“Before the academy, Miri never had cause to wonder if a person was head smart or not. It seemed everyone was clever at something – there were those who were best at picking out the right fissure for prying a block of linder free and those who were best at making cheese or tanning hides, beating drums or tossing stones. Now, smart meant to Miri the talent to think around a new problem and learn new things.”
― Shannon Hale

“I notice for the first time that though her face is plain and her body settled into the thickness of middle age, she is beautiful. It’s the kind of beauty exuded through pores, through lustrous eyes, through inner peace.”
― Amy MacKinnon, Tethered

“A lot of countries surrounding Italy aren't so bad. That's because the Roman Empire conquered and raped their women. So there is a little bit of Italian in everybody! This is good news, as all Italians bear this in mind when dealing with our neighbors and other foreign-fucked, heavily raped countries, and it gives us the resolve and compassion to deal with their bullshit.”
― H.C. Blackburne, Observations

“My observations of high altitude observatory workers is that they seem to have elevated levels of behavioral problems that eventually progresses into ill health, disease and premature death for some.”
― Steven Magee

“And how did you know it was me? I was supposed to be Marie Antoinette.”

I rolled my eyes behind the relative safety of my mask. It had been an elementary exercise to identify Evaline even among the throngs of masked individuals. All I needed was to watch the food table. I knew she’d eventually make her way there and stay for a time. “Her ears were all wrong,” I told her.

“Her ears?”

“Evaline, have you not listened to anything I’ve tried to teach you over the last year? There are three elements of an individual’s appearance that are virtually impossible to disguise. The eyes, the hands, and the ears. Not to mention a number of mannerisms of which most people are unaware—and thus rarely take the pains to change or hide—which can also be used to identify them. That is, in part, how I was so readily able to identify the Ankh even at the earliest stages of our acquaintance.

“Thus, I knew immediately that the woman dressed as Marie Antoinette was not you because her ears were wrong. Aside from that, she’s been here more than an hour and she’s not had even a morsel of food.”
― Colleen Gleason, The Zeppelin Deception

“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I look at how someone sits. You can tell a lot about a person by how they sit.”
― Deborah Bee, The Last Thing I Remember

“Cassini's supporters, and they were many, were certain he was the victim of injustice. The lies he told were garbled in the passions that followed. Some conveniently forgot the lies; some said his words were deliberately twisted; some said Janos and I had faked our deaths for an unstated, dark purpose. Many of his supporters were only honest fools: if you have shaken the hand of a hero and praised his name at hearth and tavern, it is difficult to suddenly think ill of him, since his heroism reflects on you. Cassini's most powerful supporters, hoever, had more complex reasons. Influence, and therefore fortune, had been staked on Cassini. To admit his villainy would be to suffer humiliation; and in the corridors of powere where battles are won or lost on an errant word, humiliation cannot be countenanced.”
― Chris Bunch, The Far Kingdoms