Quotes About Watches

#1. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.

Louie Anderson

#2. My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Khalil Gibran

#3. I used to be the sort of boy who had sand kicked in his face, now I'm the sort of boy who watches somebody else have it kicked in their face

Sue Townsend

#4. She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Neil Gaiman

#5. There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.

Erik Larson

#6. Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.

Stephen Spender

#7. Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country.

Laurie Nadel

#8. Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck

#9. A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

George Eliot

#10. The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

Geena Davis

#11. Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.

Mario Balotelli

#12. When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

Joseph Prince

#13. This kind of hostile environment creates division within the cultures themselves, and it pits the bulls against each other while the matador watches from a safe place.

Thor Benson

#14. 'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

Logan Lerman

#15. I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.

Libba Bray

#16. 7 The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. 8 The LORD keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.

Anonymous

#17. There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.

Clifford A. Pickover

#18. Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side.

Mercedes Lackey

#19. In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20. Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#22. All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, "Tell me why I shouldn't kill you."
One motherfuck of an essay question.

Don Winslow

#23. If he can be call'd meek
who has no wishes
or hiding who needs never
be found
or scared who never
attacks
forgotten, who watches up
the night
If he can be called "he,"
who has no self
Writes "One is All"
On every wall.

Jack Kerouac

#24. I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.

Richard Ayoade

#25. My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

#26. No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#27. You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

Peaches Geldof

#28. That winter he was invited to give a reading at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), but not a single person showed up. He sat in the silent lecture hall while his two sponsors gazed at their watches; finally Yates suggested they adjourn to a bar. He didn't seem particularly surprised.

Blake Bailey

#29. I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

David Boreanaz

#30. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot Jr.

#31. God watches over every temptation and trial that you will ever face in your life and He will never "allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.

Robert B. Somerville

#32. Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

Stephen King

#33. When the sun begins to set, we do exactly as we did the night before. Caroline fusses over Dink. Jaxon ogles Harper. The boys gather desert debris for our beds. Guy watches me undress. I imagine our wedding.

Victoria Scott

#34. The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.

Henry B. Eyring

#35. Now that I have a daughter, I've been thinking about how I'll define beauty to her. I watched a video of Kendall when she was three, and she was putting on makeup. I don't know how I feel about that. But my daughter already watches me do it. When do you let them start wearing it? I don't know yet.

Kourtney Kardashian

#36. When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

Swizz Beatz

#37. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nancy Willard

#38. And yet she feels no pain and watches placidly as the Smiling Man is enveloped in a mass of hair that tears him into pieces.

Rin Chupeco

#39. Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#40. We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

Sara Sheridan

#41. People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It's boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you're a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.

Mark Sutton

#42. God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#43. Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.

Charles McPhee

#44. A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.

Stephen King

#45. if a witch tries to influence a Christian believer with a magic spell, it will often fail to work, simply because the Lord watches over His children carefully. God will not allow the devil

William Schnoebelen

#46. I love the dog. She comes for drives with me in the back of my car. Darby is not aggressive or judgmental. She just is. That's what I love about her. She sits there and watches 'The Fugitive' with me.

Sarah Bolger

#47. Who can detect lies except an omniscient almighty that sits in the sky and watches us from the firmament?

S.A. David

#48. God is the father who watches and waits for his children, runs out to meet them, embraces them, pleads with them, begs and urges them to come home.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#49. My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.

Richard Mille

#50. I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

Ali Larter

#51. Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.

Thomas Pierce

#52. A friend ... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.

Andrea Cremer

#53. I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Donnie Yen

#54. Sits on playground bench. Watches kid 1. Looks around for kid 2. Panics. Sees kid 2. Looks for kid 1. Panics. Sees kid 1. Looks for kid 2. Panics.

Kate Hall

#55. No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

#56. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

Rita Rudner

#57. Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

Scott Snyder

#58. Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." ... At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

Billy Graham

#59. If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?

Sherwood Smith

#60. For me, whatever the outcome, it's nice to sit back to something and say, Man, I'm really proud of that. I'm real proud of the experience that I had, I'm proud to be a part of something so iconic whether anyone watches it or not. They can't take away the experience that I had.

Mike Vogel

#61. Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

Martin Amis

#62. every time someone watches one of their (Kardashian) shows, a book commits suicide

Sonia Koso

#63. The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Carl Sandburg

#64. Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

Lisa Bevere

#65. Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

#66. I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

Randy West

#67. Maybe this man experiences another kind of reality where he is here and there, before and after, and he moves from one to the other shatteringly, in a state of collapse, minus an identity, a language, a way to enjoy the savor of the honey-coated toast she watches him eat. She

Don DeLillo

#68. We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know. There

Dennis Lehane

#69. No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.

Alexander McCall Smith

#70. What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

Redd Foxx

#71. Everyone that watches "Deep Throat" is watching me being raped.

Linda Lovelace

#72. The more people I meet, the more I'm realizing how rare it is to find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it takes you.

Katie Kacvinsky

#73. He Himself creates, O Nanak; He establishes the various creatures. How can anyone be called bad?. There is One Lord and Master of all; He watches over all, and assigns all to their tasks. Some have less, and some have more; no one is allowed to leave empty.

Guru Angad

#74. Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Eugene Kennedy

#75. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return.

Lao-Tzu

#76. The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are
it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know
Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

Lenny Bruce

#77. For people who had nothing much to do and nowhere much to go, they were extraordinarily interested in their watches -

Kurt Vonnegut

#78. She said that; and I knew then that, careful as I have been - still and secret and silent as I have been, in my high room - she has been watching me, as Miss Ridley watches, and Miss Haxby.

Sarah Waters

#79. I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

Jack Vance

#80. It is now a three-leg and one and three-quarter-eared cat. The cat still watches NASCAR, drinks beer, and is the smartest one of the three.

Skip Clark

#81. Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

#82. I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.

Joshua Emmet

#83. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#84. From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore

#85. You've got the watches," say the Taliban, "but we've got the time.

Steven Pressfield

#86. The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

Frederick Lenz

#87. It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.

Shirley Jackson

#88. Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Harper Lee

#89. The greatest thing you do as a leader may not
be what you do as a leader but who watches you
do what you do.

Andy Stanley

#90. For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

Anonymous

#91. He watches you the way Nicholas watched Samantha.

J.M. Darhower

#92. About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.

William Faulkner

#93. Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

John Rosemond

#94. The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

Matthew Ashford

#95. Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.

John Irving

#96. You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

Bryant McGill

#97. God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Leo Durocher

#98. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Achard

#99. Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Mahatma Gandhi

#100. Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.

Malcolm Gladwell