Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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?

Ian Fleming

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

Jack Vance

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

Christina Aguilera

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

Christine Feehan

Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

Jeff Pinkner

So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they watch the show and hold us to continuity. We're certainly aware of the debates that are going to occur.

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.

George Carlin

Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?

Garth Nix

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...

Famke Janssen

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

Jerome K. Jerome

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

Jesse Helms

Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.

Dogen

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)

Shawn Ryan

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.

N. T. Wright

True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.

Ray Bradbury

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

Michael Patrick King

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

Shonda Rhimes

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

M. Ward

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

Mae Whitman

I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.

Mark Burnett

No one's going to watch The Bible on primetime TV.

Mike Mills

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

John Ruskin

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Noah Baumbach

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

Mitch Albom

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

Mike Vogel

Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.

Michael Douglas

I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.