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Quotes About Watching

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.
~ Paullina Simons
The best way to contorl people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.
~ Brad Garrett
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
~ Geezer Butler
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
~ J. I. Packer
I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.
~ Gerard Way
I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.
~ Will Ferrell
I'm in love with 'Bravo.' Me and my girlfriends love 'Bravo-ing,' which doesn't necessarily mean watching 'Bravo.' It's when you're a bum and you're on your couch watching reality shows.
~ Ashley Tisdale
God can turn any tragedy into a triumph, if only you will wait and watch.
~ Max Lucado
Fleeing the premises? Detective Canavan echos sarcastically. Have you been watching Castle again? It's a reasonable question, I say. And Castle 's a very good show.
~ Meg Cabot
I'm watching you, Josh," she said. "So are the police. You can't hide anymore. You're going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
At least watching dirty movies can be kind of fascinating if they aren't too horribly strange. And even the horribly strange ones are still more interesting than televised sports.
~ Merrill Markoe
But the horn had been destroyed. From his position, they would have heard its blast all the way down to the village. How cruel, this game the gods were playing with him and his family. Were they watching him now? Were they laughing at him?
~ Bernhard Hennen
God made to spring up. It's a wonder that God would choose to slowly grow what He could have simply created grown. Why on earth would He go to the trouble to plant a garden forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence, full bloom? Why leave His desk and get His pant legs soiled? Because God likes watching things grow.
~ Beth Moore
I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.
~ Richard Jenkins
He'd set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched
~ Sue Grafton
A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end. "Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? " Silence. Then dial tone. These younger demons. So easily discouraged.
~ Josh Lanyon
A Pause followed my greeting. Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the other end. 'Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys?
~ Josh Lanyon
she decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.
~ Julia Quinn
I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.
~ Juan Pablo Di Pace
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
~ James Gray
watching their smoke lured out the window by the sun.
~ Eve Babitz