Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. D. Salinger

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

Ira Gershwin

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Jack McDevitt

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Miguel Cabrera

I was thinking, 'Whoa,' ... I say to myself, 'I better watch out. I've got to be ready.'

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Christina Aguilera

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

Hayden Panettiere

I don't generally like to watch myself.

Gordon Bethune

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

Herbie Hancock

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

Jeff Vandermeer

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Jean Rostand

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Goodluck Jonathan

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

Gregory Maguire

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

Guy Finley

Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

James Darren

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

James Cromwell

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

James Gleick

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?

Glenn Beck

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

Fred Rogers

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen,

Ian Fleming

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

Harry Nilsson

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

H. G. Wells

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

Grant Bowler

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

Gary Kovacs

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Ike Taylor

He's no slouch, ... You can see that when you watch him on tape. And Bradford and Gaffney aren't slouches, either.

I do like that it replays a lot of games, ... We (usually) don't get to watch a lot of football.

Brooke Smith

You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.

Christopher Nolan

I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.