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Quotes About Watching

There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.
~ Walter Dean Myers
But I wasn't mad or happy. And as I lay in bed trying to read, I realized that upset had been overshadowed by uneasy. I felt as though someone was watching me. I got so spooked I even got up to check out the window and in the closet and under the bed, but the feeling still didn't go away. It took me nearly until midnight to understand what it was. It was me. Watching me.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
I bring you a warning—every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are: watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking—keep watching the skies!
~ Charles Lederer
Dreaming's shit, but dying's worse; and watching someone die, that comes somewhere between the two, I guess. It ain't good, but it's got to be better than the other thing, better than doing it yourself. Hasn't it?
~ Chaz Brenchley
Yeah, you're being paranoid all right, pal, Brad concluded, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone. Like that dude said, it ain't paranoia if the bastards really are watchin'.
~ Chet Williamson
cold gray rainy day watching winter's last leaves fall from my cozy bed
~ Terri Guillemets
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
There are angels on the tree?" "Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don't we?
~ Heather Graham
You can observe a lot by watching.
~ Lawrence Peter
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.
~ Lemony Snicket
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over himself.
~ Lemony Snicket
I looked up at the painting that hung above my bed as usual, a little girl holding a dog with a bandaged paw. Who would paint such a thing, I wondered. First he painted the little girl and nobody cared, so he added a dog. Still nobody cared, so he added a bandage on the dog's paw, and now it's hanging in the Far East Suite watching me try to sleep. How long has that dog been hurt? How long has the girl been watching?
~ Lemony Snicket
LAMONT AND McGeary both turned to me, their eyes asking if I was crazy. You want to watch her being murdered a second time? No, I didn't. Not a chance. Watching it the first time made me so nauseous I thought I'd throw up right there on the floor.
~ James Patterson
Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his
~ Jane Austen
The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river—a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As
~ Jane Gardam
I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down. Grandma Mazur
~ Janet Evanovich
Do you have someone watching her house?" (Stephanie) "That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We're so underbudgeted we're one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)
~ Janet Evanovich
You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn.
~ Janet Evanovich
my leg over the bike. Ranger was watching me, smiling. "I like the way you straddle that," he said. "Someday . . .
~ Janet Evanovich
Of course, you need protecting.
~ Janet Evanovich
On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
~ Sharon Tate
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
~ Paul Bloom
It is unusual for a coach to call you, just from a fundamental standpoint and say 'hey we're watching what you do.'
~ Sean McDermott
For me, the best way to unwind at the end of the day while I'm pregnant is to take a nice, long soak. I get in my bathtub, download a show onto my computer, prop it up on a chair, and just lie there watching and relaxing.
~ Jessie James Decker