Silent Observer Quotes

#1. If there were a silent observer, Mirabelle would be seen as a carefree, happy girl who is preparing for a night on the town. But in reality, these activities are the physical manifestations of her stillness.

Steve Martin

#2. What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us
And urge us to futile activity,
And in the end, Judge us still more severely,
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

T. S. Eliot

#3. PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#4. I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

Misty Copeland

#5. The very same 'mystery' that veils the human person from the neurophysiologist veils human history from the Marxian determinist and human morality from the sociobiologist.

Roger Scruton

#6. Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Susanna Kaysen

#7. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.

Dana Arcuri

#8. Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.

Rand Paul

#9. The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Malcolm Forbes

#10. If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

Paul Graham

#11. Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

John Scalzi

#12. A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#13. I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

Bennett Miller

#14. Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.

Vladimir Nabokov