Evan Esar Quotes

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

People-watching is my favorite thing to do. This is blowing my mind. I fixate on one person, and then I think about the struggles in their life. I think about what made them walk the way they do.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

I'm a people watcher, and I love to listen.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

I like to look in the crevices of things, the nooks and the crannies. I like to see the things other people don't see, don't want to look at.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.