Top 35 Observant Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Observant Quotes from famous people such as Ali Wong, V. S. Pritchett, Sonia Sotomayor, Meir Kahane, Zhou Qunfei, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly exc

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.
Ali Wong
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people’s signals.
Sonia Sotomayor
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
Meir Kahane
If it wasn’t for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.
Zhou Qunfei
Here’s the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn’t see me. If you saw me, you’d think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
Victor LaValle
I’m very observant. I see more than people think I’m seeing.
Herm Edwards
My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
Elayne Boosler
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I’m very observant.
E-40
I am an observant. I like to observe people.
Diljit Dosanjh
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
I’ve always been a very observant person, a visual person. That’s my way of learning. Things on paper, notes and things like that, don’t help me the same way as watching things live.
Adam Thielen
When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and ’80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn’t recognize.
Bob Beckel
Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
Floyd Skloot
Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
Sidney Crosby
We Shaqiris are observant Muslims, but we are a long way from everything extreme.
Xherdan Shaqiri
I’m very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.
Fabolous
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap
I could never be anyone I’ve played. I am so not a detective; I can barely get 200 yards from A to B with the help of Google maps, and I am just about the least observant person on the planet, so I never notice what people look like or how they walk or if they’re committing a crime in broad daylight.
Nicola Walker
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
Nat Turner
I’m not a perfectionist. I’m just very observant.
Chris Van Allsburg
Boys, for the most part, are not very observant – or all that together smart, for that matter.
Ad-Rock
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
Carrie Coon
Vatsal is helpful, observant and chivalrous. What I dislike is that he never experiments with food.
Ishita Dutta
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers – the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue – bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
I am very observant of people’s character.
Jeff Buckley
There is an audience out there for literate films – slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
Alexander Payne
My family are observant Muslims, but I’ve come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that’s something that they’ve taught me. It’s never been forced upon me. They’ve given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It’s like a way of life and it’s good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don’t know if there is a God or not.
Grant Shapps
I think that people who make films and think they’re changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I’m making politically observant films for audiences.
Neill Blomkamp
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular count

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O’Rourke
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
Elliott Abrams
I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
Ellie Goulding
It’s a director’s job to tell a story and he’s very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that’s exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn’t understand but he told a wonderful story.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.