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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#every #fellow #observant #outskirts #points

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#determine #enforcement #human #human powers #individual

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more. ↗

— Sean Young

#absence #course #create #defend #even

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#absence #around #basic #beings #between

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#elvis presley #i #little #obsessed #presley

People seem to get weirdly obsessed with my mouth. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#mouth #obsessed #people #seem #weirdly

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. ↗

— Paul Getty

#experience #i #i have learned #learned #observation