‘I’ve learned to recognise the way people don’t say things.’ (MR)
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People see what they think is there. (MR)
... people never see anyone who wants them to give them money. (TOT)
It was difficult to talk to someone who paid attention all the time. It put you off. (HFS)
'I don't know how to look for something that doesn't look like the thing I'm looking for...' (AM)
'I've got very odd thumbs when it comes to pricking.' (FE)
... no expression is an expression in itself. (Do)
... it was amazing how much you could glean from a look, or a snort, or even a fart if it was dropped into the conversation at just the right place. (Do)
'First sight is when you can see what's really there, not what you heid tells you ought to be there. Ye saw Jenny, Ye saw the horseman, Ye saw them as real thingies second sight is dull sight, it's seeing only what you expect to see.' (WFM)
... a witch always listens to other people's conversations. (WFM)
... humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. (Wings)
There was the silence made by something frightened in fear of its life. There was the silence made by small creatures, being still. There was the silence made by big creatures, waiting to pounce on small creatures. Sometimes there was the silence made by no one being there. And then there was a very sharp, hot kind of silence made by someone there - watching. (CP)
He was aware that he had their full attention, something that wizards did not often give. Usually they defined 'listening' as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next. It was disconcerting. (LC)
The Librarian was informally banned from the High Energy Magic building, owing to his inherent tendency to check on what things were by tasting them. This worked very well in the Library, where taste had become a precision reference system, but was less useful in a room occasionally contains bus bars throbbing with several thousand thaums. The ban was informal, of course, because anyone capable of pulling the doorknob right through an oak door can obviously go where he likes. (SD)
... he listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out. (J)
What's the good of Clues that are more mysterious than the mystery? (FC)
He was extremely good at listening. He created a kind of mental suction. People told him things just to avoid the silence. (SM)
Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight. (WFM)
Sometimes, if you pay real close attention to the pebbles you find out about the ocean. (LL)
The Fool was vaguely aware that you could tell which direction the Hub lay by seeing which side of the trees the moss grew on. A quick inspection of the nearby trunks indicated that, in defiance of all normal geography, the Hub lay everywhere. (WS)
That’s old Twoflower. Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. And treads on it. It’s right what Cohen says. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect. (LF)
Scientific revolutions don’t change the universe. They change how humans interpret it. (JD)
People didn’t take any notice of little old ladies who looked as though they fitted in, and Nanny Ogg could fit in faster than a dead chicken in a maggot factory. (Ma)
'Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.' (TOT)
It occurred to Johnny, not for the first time, that the human mind, of which each of his friends was in possession of one almost standard sample, was like a compass. No matter how much you shook it up, no matter what happened to it, sooner or later it'd carry on pointing the same way. If three-metre-tall Martians landed on the shopping mall, bought some greeting cards and a bag of sugar cookies and then took off again, within a day or two people would believe it never happened. (JD)
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