Watches Quotes

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. (Erma Bombeck)
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. View quote
Samuel Johnson
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. View quote
Albert Camus
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. View quote
Conor Cruise O'Brien
He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything. View quote
Frank Robinson
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. View quote
Leonard Cohen
In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face - the face of one long dead - Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own. View quote
Alexander Pope
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path. (Robert Jordan)
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else. View quote
David Boreanaz
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. View quote
Adrienne Rich
If one watches whence the notion ‘I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. View quote
Martin Amis
If the Soul sees, after death, what passes on this earth, and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery, and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. View quote
Albert Pike
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? View quote
Douglas Adams
I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. View quote
Uri Geller
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces. (Stephen Spender)
We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work. View quote
Ernest Rutherford
The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened. View quote
Nicholas Murray Butler
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description! View quote
Alfred Binet
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through. View quote
Bruce Beresford