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Quotes About Watching

she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and endeavouring to sustain something like a conversation — consisting chiefly of a succession of commonplace remarks, expressed with frigid formality: but this might be more my fault than hers, for I really could not converse.
~ Anne Bronte
I watched them with the eyes of a hungry ghost.
~ Anne Rice
It had been bitter winter and the fire behind her seemed magical its brightness as he had stood in the snow watching her as she spun the thread as he had seen a hundred mortal women do.
~ Anne Rice
He stood watching me, growing ever more calm, but certainly enrapt.
~ Anne Rice
We watch And we are always there.
~ Anne Rice
And yet still she watched him... he wondered why. One possibility, and by far his favorite, was that she was planning his murder.
~ Anne Stuart
The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the feet of the Self for a reason, and people are watching. A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.
~ Annie Dillard
her. "I couldn't get down from the roof without being seen." Plausible enough. "I can understand why you were watching Doe, but why did the archdiocese ask you to keep an eye on her attorney?" "Belt-and-suspenders lawyering. They wanted to discredit the messenger–especially if she was a depressed, quasi-suicidal loon who had a grudge against the archdiocese." "Was she?" "Not
~ Sheldon Siegel
You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I'd rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
But for the last couple of weeks I've had this bizarre sensation that something is watching me. (Simone) You mean someONE, right? (Tate) I know it sounds crazy – (Simone) I just had a body walk off the table mid-autopsy and you think your story is nuts? (Tate)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Whatever. But we're watching you, Wolf. (Colt) Then I'll try not to piss on the floor or hump the furniture…your leg, though, might be another matter. (Fury)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Then get your butt out there and watch them. (Remi) Nice attitude, Rem. Really, you should see about suing whatever asshole sold it to you. (Aimee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.
~ John McCain
I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.
~ Kris Allen
I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.
~ John Elway
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—Not in lone splendor hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.
~ John Keats
I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.
~ John Legend
As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.
~ John McGahern
What about thy Prince? Or the Fae Queen who come to muse thee in thine illness?" "My Prince?" Will smiled at Tom. "Kit's Prince, you mean. You know, I rather suspect he's watching us now: I would be, were I in his place.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The wine was finished; the night's conversation drifted into sitting and dozing, watching the night.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In reference to King John] "But his moods are fickle and he trusts no one. He wants others to love him and he tries to make them do it, but he's watching them all the time." She moved round to face him and caught the bleak misery in his expression that he hadn't been swift enough to conceal. "He surrounds himself with mercenaries and paid men who will do whatever he commands and agree with him whatever he says or does," Will said, dropping his gaze.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
Was he still, somehow, watching over her?
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn't they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you're at home watching, you're probably watching in bed. And if you're like me, after an hour or two of watching all those sexy goings-on you forget the silly story entirely and fall asleep. Just like it's bedtime!
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard