Watches Quotes

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

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

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.

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

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.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

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.

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.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.