| "Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all." »Casino |
| "watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it." »Luke Salisbury |
| "watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed." »David K. Shipler |
| "You can observe a lot just by watching." »Yogi Berra |
| "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television." »David Letterman |
| "Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight" »Al Boliska |
| "The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears." »Leon Samson |
| "Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." »Ben Hecht |
| "If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives." »Marlon Brando |
| "It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| "watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will." »John Rocco Savalli |
| "If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life." »Unknown |
| "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." »David Letterman |
| "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." »Sir John Lubbock |
| "Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers." »Johann von Goethe |
| "I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride." »Paul Wiener |
| "Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed." »Angel Blessing |
| "We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance." »Joan Wester Anderson |
| "Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover |
| "A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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