Watches famous quotes
05-20-2025
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
-- A. A. Gill -
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
-- A. A. Milne -
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
-- A. A. Milne -
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
-- A. E. Housman -
We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
-- Aaron Belz -
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.
-- Aaron Paul -
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.
-- Abbi Glines -
My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
-- Abel Ferrara -
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
-- Adam Baldwin -
And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
-- Adam Smith -
I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.
-- Adelaide Kane -
I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.
-- Adepero Oduye -
I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner
-- Adolf Hitler -
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.
-- Adora Svitak -
I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!
-- Adriana Lima -
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
-- Akio Morita -
I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.
-- Akon -
Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
-- Al Leiter -
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
-- Al Pacino -
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
-- Al Yankovic -
There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.
-- Alaine Chartrand -
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
-- Alan Ball -
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
-- Alan Ball -
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
-- Alan Green -
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
-- Alan Parker -
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
-- Alan Rickman -
I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.
-- Alan Shearer -
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
-- Alan Shearer -
Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
-- Alana Stewart -
I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything
-- Albert Einstein -
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
-- Alexander Clark -
I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
-- Alexander Payne -
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.
-- Alicia Keys -
My DVR says that I watch a lot of TV my husband likes.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
-- Alison Sweeney -
Watch my sword, not my face!'he said. 'I'm going to stab you, not bite you!
-- Allan Frewin Jones -
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.
-- Allison Janney -
You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.
-- Ally Carter -
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)
-- Ally Carter -
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
-- Amanda Peet -
I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.
-- Amanda Righetti -
I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
-- Amber Heard -
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.
-- America Ferrera -
I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.
-- America Ferrera -
Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.
-- Amy Harmon -
It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.
-- Amy Poehler -
Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
-- Amy Poehler -
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
-- Amy Sedaris -
There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.
-- Andrew Clements -
Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.
-- Andrew McMahon -
It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.
-- Andy Borowitz -
I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.
-- Andy Cohen -
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
-- Andy Milonakis -
When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
-- Andy Murray -
Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.
-- Andy Murray -
I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
-- Andy Murray -
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
-- Andy Richter -
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
-- Andy Rooney -
If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.
-- Andy Samberg -
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
-- Andy Serkis -
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
-- Angela Carter -
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.
-- Anjelica Huston -
Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.
-- Ann Sothern -
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
-- Ann Voskamp -
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
-- Anna Chlumsky
