“Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I've always been, since I was a little kid, and my son is quite observant, too. — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
There are several cool cross-overs between 'Blue Shift,' 'Opposing Force' and 'Half-Life.' The plots are all designed to work nicely with themselves… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story,… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“I'm curious,' he said casually. The amber in his green eyes was glowing. Perhaps not all traces of that beast-warrior were gone.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter. — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image