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Quotes About Watching

If he'd had half a brain, he might have anticipated the problem inherent in watching a movie with Emma and Claudia.
~ John Irving
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
~ John Keats
For the virus had not disappeared. It had only gone underground, like a forest fire left burning in the roots, swarming and mutating, adapting, honing itself, watching and waiting, waiting to burst into flame.
~ John M. Barry
Consciousness, these experiments suggested, is merely a bystander observing a decision already taken, almost like watching ourselves on video.
~ Unknown
That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.
~ Keri Russell
You're doubtful, I'm astounding. You talk sh.. while I'm smiling. You're hatin, while I live it. You're watching me as I kill it.
~ Unknown
Weekend Advice: Some of lifes best lessons are learned while watching your drunk friends.
~ Unknown
Where is the remote? All the way over there...Guess I'm watching this.
~ Unknown
The future isn't something that just happens. It is a brutal force with a great sense of humor that will steamroll if you're not watching.
~ Bill Murray
He can feel Death in the room, hovering in the shadows, over there beside the door, head averted, but watching all the same, always watching. It is waiting, biding its time. It will slide forward on skinless feet, with breath of damp ashes, to take her, to clasp her in its cold embrace, and he, Hamnet, will not be able to wrest her free.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
He can feel Death in the room, hovering in the shadows, over there beside the door, head averted, but watching all the same, always watching. It is waiting, biding its time. It will slide forward on skinless feet, with breath of damp ashes, to take her, to clasp her in its cold embrace, and he, Hamnet, will not be able to wrest her free. Should he insist it takes him too? Should they go together, just as they always have?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Silence sits like a voyeur with popcorn, watching both of us.
~ Malorie Blackman
The best and the worst thing about being a parent is watching your child forge his own path.
~ Marc Levy
Sean may have had his problems, but he was a smart kid - the day's lesson was not lost on him, I'm certain. It wasn't lost on me: It doesn't matter how good you are at flag signals if no one is watching - the distress call is only as good as the person looking out for it." ~"Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Risk
~ Marc Parent
He sat there silent, watching their love expire.
~ Marcel Proust
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
~ John Ruskin
AS THEY WERE ROLLING out of the Southers' driveway, the couple watching them go, Wood said, "You honest to God collect poetry? I didn't know you were a delicate little rosebud." "I'm pretty delicate," Lucas admitted. "You know, when I'm not beating somebody senseless.
~ John Sandford
Until then, get the fuck out of my office." "I enjoy watching you work," Fundapellonan said, after Heuvel got the fuck out of Kiva's office.
~ John Scalzi
Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.
~ John Steinbeck
Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch
~ John Updike
The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.
~ Jane Mayer
I'm not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I'm, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.
~ Karl Rove
I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.
~ Anders Holm
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
~ Carl Jung