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Quotes About Watching

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
~ George Wald
I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.
~ Hayden Fry
Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.
~ Sarah Manguso
I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.
~ Shane Carruth
She has watched every moment of your life, almost, and she loves you as God does, to the marrow of your bones.
~ Marilynne Robinson
But watching Sylvie seemed very much like dreaming, because the motion was always the same, and was necessary, and arduous, and without issue, and repeated, not as one motion in a series, but as the same motion repeated because here was the mystery, if one could find it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
You see, that priest—he was still there, hanging on, silently waiting at the perimeter. An oily shadow always around.
~ Marisha Pessl
Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon—the only flaw in the perfect mating of sea and sky.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It watches, he added suddenly. The house. It watches every move you make.
~ Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.
~ Shirley Jackson
All I can say is good luck and I'm going to be in the front row, watching you crash and burn. Because I'm a good friend like that.
~ Shirley Jump
I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies
~ Sinclair Lewis
My knowledge of Las Vegas is fairly limited. In fact, it basically consists of watching Ocean's Eleven about a thousand times.
~ Sophie Kinsella
All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
~ Georges Bernanos
I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.
~ Ivica Dacic
It's a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become the nanny inside the home and the office, hanging over your shoulder in the kitchen, sitting room, boardroom, and even bedroom. But it is not a very good nanny.
~ John Micklethwait
I thought about my friend and wondered if his ghost was here with Macarthur. Or maybe they were in heaven somewhere watching me sing with Gecko telling the old man he was getting goosebumps.
~ John van de Ruit
Her life was invariable, like a low hum; and it was watched over by her mother, who, when Edith was a child, would sit for hours watching her paint her pictures or play her piano, as if no other occupation were possible for either of them.
~ John Williams
I was watching while you're dancing away, our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be your friend? You know that it still hurts me just to say it.
~ Elvis Costello
And then they walked through the town, in which not even a cat seemed to be moving; and everywhere they walked, the cathedral was watching them.
~ baldwin james iv
No one has time for this, of course. No one has time to lie on the deck watching stars, or to wonder how one's hand came to be, or to see the soul of a stranger walking by. Small wonder we are short on reverence.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor