Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "O" » observer
«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.»
«Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| Keywords:
measurement, observer, relative, take into account, The Observer
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, definitions, dwelling, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, enjoying, enjoyment, establish, fleeting, flow away, idler, idlers, immense, impartial, incognito, independent, intense, lend, minor, observer, passionate, prince, spirits, The Observer, throng, thronged, thronging, unseen
«A husband without faults is a dangerous observer»
Author: George Savile
| Keywords:
observer
«If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, a good deal, egotism, explanation, Freud, good deal, observer, Sex and
«IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acute, demonstration, demonstrations, Dr, eminent, investigator, investigators, observer, organ, persuaded, pith, professor, prolongation, spinal, spleen, suspend, tailed, theories
«For observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake»
«A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
bees, crowd, curious, observer, observing, stung, The Business, The Crowd, The Observer
«A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king.»
«He reads much;He is a great observer, and he looksQuite through the deeds of men.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
