Quotes of Watched - somelinesforyou

“ As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes. ”

- Jane Elliot

“ Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never actually watched another director work. ”

- Alan Parker

“ My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon. ”

- Steve Zahn

“ But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. ”

- E. Joseph Cossman

“ Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ”

- John Marquand

“ Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. ”

- Nicholson Baker

“ Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? ”

- Käthe Kollwitz

“ The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. ”

- Angela Carter

“ I'm a ridiculous sci-fi fan. In fact, I admit it freely; my manager is horrified. I just recently bought seasons two through five of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD. And I've watched all the episodes, half on the plane and a few of them as I was going to sleep last night… ”

- Emma Caulfield

“ I was 11 and always watched TV and cartoons and I would always kind of point at the cartoons and say, I want to do that. And a friend of mine got me an interview with their agent and that was it. I just kind of started pretending for a job. That was it… ”

- Breckin Meyer

“ As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ”

- Christopher Nolan

“ I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . ”

- Eva Peron

“ I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ”

- Lisa Marie Presley

“ All this time, I watched my woman, drownin' in a pool of tears. An I've seen a lot of my good folk die, had a lot of bills to pay I'd give the shirt right off of my back, if I had the guts to say take this job and shove it. ”

- Johnny Paycheck

“ I'd be painting sometimes, and get the strangest feeling I was being watched. I'd look up and see faces pressed against the window or door screens. Then, when I noticed them, the people would want to come in and talk to me. Got very upset, too, when I was too busy… ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ I always thought 'sitcom' meant sitting-down comedy. I really did! I mean, whenever I watched them, people were always sitting down, and that's what I thought they were - until somebody took me aside and said, 'No dear… it's a sit-u-a-tion comedy… ”

- Zoe Wanamaker

“ We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to… ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death. ”

- C. H.Spurgeon

“ Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish — even I if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me… ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ When you analyze admirable lives, you find they are made up of minor details, of dabbling, of experiments, of people who look back and see they were preparing themselves for careers they didn't even know they wanted. Along the way they experience so many flukes and coincidences that you can only conclude that those who experiment put themselves in the path of happenstance, watched over by the angels of coincidence. ”

- Dale Dauten

“ The Scot was knocked out of the 2003 British Open at Royal St. George's with a sore wrist injured on his way to breakfast before the first round. He was leaving his hotel and stared with disappointment at the grey sky. 'I couldn't believe it was raining and, as I looked up, I tripped over a step and fell nastily… ”

- Colin Montgomerie

“ I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. ”

- Mario Cuomo

“ A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do… ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, "Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne." And I said, "How so?" And he said, "Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles… ”

- Dermot Mulroney

“ An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. ”

- Bertrand Russell
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