Top 100 Quotes About Watching Someone
#1. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.
Mike Love
#2. Sometimes it takes watching someone else observe how you live to realize exactly how you live.
Jasmine Warga
#3. I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!
Emma Roberts
#4. The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.
Pete Wentz
#5. It was like watching someone you hate getting mugged: three seconds of hard-core violence, and when it was over you just wanted it to happen again.
David Sedaris
#6. I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.
Anna Carey
#7. I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.
Sara Bareilles
#8. Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.
Russell Brand
#9. Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
Sam Ewing
#10. And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
Melina Marchetta
#11. No way a guy who's been in there wouldn't be bothered watching someone else stick his tongue in your mouth."
"I think you should send that straight to Hallmark.
K.A. Tucker
#12. She's got a way of making a man feel guilty for certain things he'd never feel bad about on his own, like watching someone shoot himself in the face.
Kevin Wilson
#13. The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.
Madeleine L'Engle
#14. It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect ... You know, I'm in.
Brad Pitt
#15. 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
#16. Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.
Joel Spolsky
#17. There's no acceptance in watching someone die. There's only a lifetime of regret from knowing you couldn't stop it from happening.
Jewel E. Ann
#18. Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say.
Vikki Wakefield
#19. I don't find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. It's whack. I'm trying to just show my true personality, and I think that means more than anything else. I think when personality is at the forefront, its not about male or female, its just about, who is this weird character?
Nicki Minaj
#20. These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
#21. There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing but empty space and silence.
Laura Zigman
#22. Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.
Kathryn Hahn
#23. I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
Dana Schutz
#24. Mad things could be quite normal, so long as you were doing them yourself. Watching someone else doing them, you wrinkled your nose, turned around quickly, and walked away.
Kai Meyer
#25. Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.
Mark Frauenfelder
#26. A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.
Antoine Laurain
#27. For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
Matt McGorry
#28. Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
Eli Roth
#29. There is nothing more painful than watching someone give up on you.
David Levithan
#30. There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?
Peter Andrews
#31. There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
Steven Soderbergh
#32. Love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing.
Anna Carey
#33. You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
Nobuyoshi Araki
#34. The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
Ben Whishaw
#35. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Dodie Smith
#36. There's something so intense about watching someone when they don't know anyone's looking. All the stuff they carry around with them falls away, and you can catch the quickest glimpse of who they really are, underneath everything.
Catherine Lo
#37. Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.
Ally Carter
#38. I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.
Serena Williams
#39. And I was happy ... and devastatingly sad too. It was hard, watching someone you had once loved, loving someone else, and loving them more than they'd loved you. But, really, that's exactly what I'd done to Denny with Kellan -Kiera
S.C. Stephens
#40. When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
Naturi Naughton
#41. He never got tired of watching someone who'd been hurt in some way rediscover a sense of joy riding on the back of a horse. Buckwheat
Pamela Clare
#42. There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human condition.
Dael Orlandersmith
#43. It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
Jude Morgan
#44. Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
Roald Dahl
#46. He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.
Amy Lane
#47. When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
Penn Jillette
#48. 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
#49. We'd go to his apartment and play Kaboom! and Tank instead of fooling around. I guess to some people that might have been weird, but I got my rocks off watching someone be amazing at Duck Hunt. Whatever.
Felicia Day
#50. You know what Munny said to me, right before we left? She said, 'Watching someone die is hard work. Go to Australia and watch Faye fall in love with some dude named Rabbit. That should be fun.
Elle Lothlorien
#51. He walked from one end of the basement to the other, the lamplight magnifying his shadow. It turned him into a giant on the wall, walking back and forth. When he stopped pacing, his shadow loomed behind him, watching. Someone was always watching.
Markus Zusak
#52. Helping your weapon reach your target is easy. Watching someone accept that their life is over before it ever became something is not quite as simple.
Emm Cole
#53. It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
Johnny Knoxville
#54. When you're acting you always want to come across as if you're not acting. For me, my take is always to have it feel like you're watching someone on film and that comes with a lot of preparation time.
Vince Vaughn
#55. Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
Orson Welles
#56. There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just ... I love that.
Sam Heughan
#57. I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.
Wesley King
#58. When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.
Steve Bunce
#59. FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.
Nils Parker
#60. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#61. You're toying with one of my people,"
she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth.
"You never used to be cruel"
"I used to have a heart," he drawled "and then someone broke it.
Sylvia Day
#62. I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
Gwen Ifill
#63. If you imagine someone watching you all the time, even when you think you're alone, seeing every time you make a face, that someone would know more about you than you think.
Daniel Nayeri
#64. Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?"..."And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?"..."EVERYBODY'S got something like that.
John Jackson Miller
#65. We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.
Seth Shostak
#66. Besides, I won't be able to rest knowing someone's watching me." They
Kiera Cass
#67. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
Jim Afremow
#68. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
Donna Lynn Hope
#69. I mean, what
What if no one's watching
What if when we're dead
We are just dead
I mean, what
What if it's just us down here
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
#70. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
Lauren DeStefano
#71. You believe no one is watching because it helps you sleep at night, but someone is always watching.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#72. Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.
Jack Abramoff
#73. During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.
Erin Morgenstern
#74. I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize!
Andre Braugher
#75. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Cesar Romero
#76. I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.
Tuppence Middleton
#77. My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
Orson Scott Card
#78. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.
Yoon Ha Lee
#79. It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
Robert Stone
#80. Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me; I wanted her to talk to me. And I felt it then: this strange, inexplicable sense that she might be the only person in the world I could really care about.
Tahereh Mafi
#81. If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.
Dean Cavanagh
#82. Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
Steve Martin
#83. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"
"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.
Melinda Salisbury
#84. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.
Paul Wesley
#85. Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.
Emily Giffin
#86. Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.
Jay Asher
#87. Lo: "How much did it hurt?"
Ryke: "Did what hurt?"
Lo: "Watching her with other guys."
Ryke: "It felt like someone was drowning me in fucking salt water and lighting me on fire.
Krista Ritchie
#88. I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.
Ellen Page
#89. My heart really lies in my jewelry line, Archangel. I have really enjoyed watching the company go from nothing and slowly building it year by year, and getting into one store, then another store. And then I'll see someone wearing a piece of it on the streets, and it's all very exciting.
Brody Jenner
#91. If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
Emily Blunt
#92. I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
Nicole Kidman
#93. I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.
Sonakshi Sinha
#94. He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.
Alexandra Engellmann
#95. Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.
Terry Pratchett
#96. I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.
Meg Rosoff
#97. I could feel someone watching me. Eyes boring a hole in the back of my neck, crawling over my skin.
Kaitlin Bevis
#98. Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
Mike Krzyzewski
#99. From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
Reynolds Price
#100. A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching
Bas Rutten
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