Detached Observer Quotes & Sayings

Your son is a drunkard," she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger's breath. "Following in his father's footsteps, I see," she added coldly. — Diana Gabaldon

I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way. — Ricky Schroder

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through. — Syleena Johnson

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. — Michael Aspel

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins. — Terry Pratchett

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help. — Tim Winton

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. — Hugh Kingsmill

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. — Kenneth L. Pike

I have lived a great life. I am very happy. — Rod Stewart

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal. — Enya

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world. — Kenneth Anger