Observer Quotes

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If we took away women`s right to vote, we`d never have to worry about another Democrat (sic) president. It`s kind of a pipe dream, it`s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don`t think it`s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. (October 2, 2007, New York Observer interview with George Gurley)

- Ann Coulter

"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

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

- Buffalo Bill

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

- Dane Cook

An actor is an interpreter of other men`s words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

- Alec Guinness

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

- André Breton

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

- Anthony Holden

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

- Rick Wakeman

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I`d lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You`d hear it booming out of people`s windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ$1.30) in second hand shops. I`d always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.

- Tom Bailey

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I`ve retained over the years.

- Giorgio Armani

In this situation, the reasonable observer must be deemed aware of the patriotic uses, both historical and present, of the phrase `In God We Trust,`

- Robert King

That requires the heavy lift ship to actually ballast or flood down. It could appear to the casual observer that a ship is sinking in Elliot Bay.

- John Lockwood

the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he`s never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn`t come to believe in what he`d created.

- Bethany McLean

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

- Adam Moore

I`m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

- Alan Sypert

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I`m not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I`m not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

- Alex Grossman

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

- Alex Mosson

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time`s chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

- Alexander Gregg

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

- Alexandre Oliveira

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

- Alfred Chan

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

- Allen Rossum

The detached observer`s view is one window on the world.

- Allen Rossum

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

- Ambrosia Prudhomme

I suppose the one very striking thing, you know, to a British observer is the fact that Labour is in power in every State in Australia.

- Amr Moussa

But now that I`m cartooning full-time, I`m more of an observer. I`m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it`s not like being in the trenches.

- Andrew Arulanandam

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

- Andrew Bacevich

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

HOTELS The Passion of Pomeranc Hotelier Jason Pomeranc takes some time to chat with the Observer this week and addresses the issue that always seems to be staring him in the face, namely the delays that have pushed back the opening of his new Thompson LES on several occasions now (not to mention made Pomeranc something of a running joke in the industry). But Pomeranc has good news! Three of the 22 floors will open this week, although if you`d like to use the pool or sample the restaurant on the second floor, you`ll have to wait until October 15th when it will probably be too cold to swim anyway. "There are always unforeseen circumstances that cause delays in scheduling," Pomeranc tells Chris Schott. (Not addressed: The rumor that Pomeranc spends more time jetting around the world with his hottie publicist girlfriend Ali Wise, above, than he does at the office.) But if you think the delays and bad press may have humbled Jason just a little bit, well, don`t get ahead of yourself. You`re going to be thanking him pretty soon for making the Lower East Side, don`t you know? "Usually, that process culminates with a luxury project—like what I believe the Thompson Lower East Side will be—where it integrates the vibe and the flow of the neighborhood but introduces a new audience as well. "I view a project as successful, like when we opened 60 Thompson, when it inherently became identified with the neighborhood. It became synonymous with Soho. I hope that the Thompson Lower East Side will do the same." Well, just as soon as the hotel actually opens and Jason and Ali get back from St. Tropez or Porto Cervo or wherever they are this week. Fashionably Late (Observer)

- Alison Wise