Valerie Trierweiler Quotes

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

I've always been quiet, more of an observer.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.