Observed Quotes

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"Actors are observers. They`re trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you`re the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It`s all wrong."

- Hayden Christensen

"It`s such a struggle to protect your integrity and dignity in this industry ... they really want to attack your morality and your beliefs. They need you to give up a certain part of yourself before they`ll initiate you into `stardom` ... I`ve always been kind of a hermit. I find my joy in the little things they want to take away from me. Prior to all this, I took pleasure from being the observer. Now I`m the observed."

- Hayden Christensen

With the hugely talented women I`ve worked with or observed, it`s not a question about temperament or ego; it`s a question about getting it right. If they`ve got a reputation for being difficult it`s usually because they just don`t suffer fools.

- Glenn Close

If I had observed all the rules, I`d never have gotten anywhere.

- Marilyn Monroe

(On the direction from Joe Wright in "Pride and Prejudice.") You can get quite self-conscious at times, there`s this business of your close up coming up, but in that big ball scene he put three cameras on it. And in lots of the dinner scenes too, so you wouldn`t actually know when your moment was coming. That`s why it`s got that lovely unaware quality to it, you really did feel it`s being observed. I think it`s because people didn`t know they were being watched really, that`s what you get, this window on life.

- Rosamund Pike

I`d observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money; but that nonetheless people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day in rather wonderful and privileged circumstances. We are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired - in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the constitution.

- David Mamet

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn`t say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

- Todd Gitlin

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

- Ty Cobb

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

- Abraham Lincoln

I`ll just say, you hope you have an imagination at work you hope it has the support of your life experience and what you`ve observed and so forth.

- Todd Solondz

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

- Duncan Hunter

All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket when observed with the naked eye.

- David Richardson

as they could simply revert to bad habits. All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the Laws of Cricket when observed with the naked eye.

- David Richardson

In the first place, the market provision of `security` generates its own paranoid demand. `Security` becomes a ... prestige symbol. Secondly, as William Whyte has observed of social intercourse in New York, `fear proves itself`. The social perception of threat becomes a function of the security mobilization itself, not crime rates.

- Mike Davis

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

- John Searle

I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp (in Indianapolis). They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.

- Nate Robinson

(The only other team that has matched that feat is Illinois, whose two stars made an impression on Robinson over the summer.) I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp (in Indianapolis), ... They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.

- Nate Robinson

On my initial look into the Bronco I observed a smear on the center console, ... As it got lighter, I did see additional spots and smears. I saw a spot on the front passenger seat, the steering wheel, and I saw an additional smear on the center console. ... It appeared to me to be blood.

- Donald Thompson

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

- A. Townsend Peterson

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it`s stranger than non-fiction as well.

- Alain Couder

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

- Alan Rodger

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

- Alberto Madrigal

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

- Aleksander Suglobov

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

- Alex Culbertson

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

- Alex Grossman

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

- Alex Ovechkin

I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because `tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon.

- Alicia Bell

We`ve observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

- Allen Boyd

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

- Allison Baker

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

- Alvaro Cifuentes

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

- Alvina Tan

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

- Amadou Doutchi

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

- Amanda Silverman

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

- Amy Beaner

I`m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

- Amy Holtsford

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

- Andre Bishop

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

- Andre Parker

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

- Andrea Gaston

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

- Andrew Bacevich

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

- Andrew McCormick

THE parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

- Andrew McCormick

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

- Andy Burns

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

- Andy Greenberg

Fast which is good to Allah and that fasting which Daud (AS) observed.

- Andy Hartmann

(In the DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES, Bishop J. Jon Bruno lost the first round in a property fight with St. James, Newport Beach, but he is fighting back with all guns blazing. He disputes the notion of free speech and says it is simply a matter of who owns the property, which he, of course, maintains that he does. One VirtueOnline reader observed that Bruno`s caterwauling about losing in court did not cite any grounds for appeal -- only the opinion that the ruling was in) error. ... Nine times out of 10 when you lose in the circuit court -- you`ve lost. Generally, appeals courts don`t overturn the rulings of lower courts. That`s why appeals that triumph are such big news.

- Antun Domic

The natural question is, does she own this vision, or is it something that has been put together from outside herself? Having observed her, I really have the sense that she`s the principal architect. Yes, her parents are feeding it, but ultimately it`s something you can`t fake. It has to be something you own, or the whole thing fizzles out.

- Aron Buchman

This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed.

- Ash Rajan

Mike has observed many of these things, and he`s avoided the less toxic elements of those various personalities.

- Barbara Akins

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren`t in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

- Barry Blauvelt

It is the theory that decides what can be observed

- Albert Einstein