I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

- Kacey Musgraves

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

- Vera Farmiga

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

- Tracey Ullman

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

- Tim O'Brien

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

- Richard Jefferies

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

- Neill Blomkamp

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

- Marc Bloch

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

- Michael Korda

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

- Mason Cooley

I love observing people.

- Liv Tyler

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

- Anthony Warlow

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

- Jason Molina

You can learn so much just by observing.

- Jessica Williams

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

- Hanya Yanagihara

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

- Elif Safak

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

- Eric Hoffer

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

- Eddie Murphy

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

- Christina Baker Kline

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

- Brian Acton

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

- Amanda Burton