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Quotes About Watching

When this thing happens, she is calm, floating above the storm, watching the raging sea below.
~ Naomi Alderman
It was a pleasure to watch them eating jalebis, always entreating the other to eat some more—the beauty of love that had mellowed in the evening of life.
~ Unknown
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
~ Neil Gaiman
'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.
~ NeNe Leakes
Jason P. Mitchell, "Watching Minds Interact," in What's Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science, ed. Max Brockman (New York: Vintage, 2009), 78–88.
~ Unknown
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.
~ Nick Flynn
Hild roamed the vale and its thicket of woods, collecting herb and watching the world slow down, fade, and tidy itself away for winter.
~ Nicola Griffith
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~ Unknown
Nothing," she'd say, and go back to some busywork. But I knew what she was watching for. Colleen headed toward home, a small child's hand in hers. Love and reason have never been well acquainted.
~ Unknown
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.
~ Unknown
Perhaps there were some angels watching over him; sometimes they turn up on the wrong side.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Their clothes have become transparent, so she watches them wed entropy. Our bodies are poor, dirty, grist—without exception—for the mill.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Beltran does not heed that I am near. But I can watch him, follow him, guard him in his sleep—it is enough. I ask no more. I am only a dog—I dare to love, I dare not even seek to be loved in answer.
~ Ouida
I loved being a dad. It's just so much fun watching these little people you've brought into the world as they develop and grow up.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Whenever you turn around, I'll be watching and waiting for you.
~ Unknown
Our species is obsessed with play: we are either participating ourselves or watching others play for us.
~ Patricia B. McConnell
You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate. "What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water. "I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice.
~ Patricia Briggs
All they could do was entertain themselves watching the devastation, marvelling at the might of T?whiri M?tea
~ Unknown
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.
~ Patrick Carman
Virtue will slumber. The wicked will be continually watching. Consequently, you will be undone.
~ Patrick Henry
Herc watches the door. Occasionally, it watches him back. They can spend hours before one of them breaks down.
~ Unknown
Holmes, held fast by a multitude of hooks and chains, being carved up by a member of the Order of the Gash (or, as Mary termed them, Cenobites). A creature with thick, pulsating tentacles feeding into its back, wearing a long-coat and hat, giving the superficial appearance of a gentleman. Watching
~ Paul Kane
What are we doing?" Riven asked. Cale answered, "We're watching." Riven turned his eye to him. "He told you to leave." Cale nodded. "It's only justice if there's a witness." "Justice isn't what he's after, Cale." Cale had not considered that.
~ Paul S. Kemp
But he froze before he had reached far enough, halted, certainly, by the same sexret doubt I had seen in others, the querulous look and fear that asked, Is there yet someone alive in that shell? Some living human being, watching, waiting to come back to life [...]. Might there yet be some ember that could burst suddenly into flame, escaping, falling away to earth like a maggot dropping from a carcass?
~ Unknown