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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Problem

“We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“Watch out for the icy patch”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Invisible Library

“People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

People, Way

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

Reality

“No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Evil, Time

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

World, Color

“Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Heart

“So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Life, Thinking

“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.”

Stephen King book Finders Keepers

Source: Finders Keepers

“That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Jealousy, Tree, Time, Anger

“Retribution is tricky…. The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

Way, Learning

“Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” George said. “Now that’s what I call a busy evening.”
Lockwood nodded. “To think some people just watch television.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Whispering Skull

Source: The Whispering Skull

People, Business, Thinking

“Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Pleasure, Sleep

“One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

World, Time

“… some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

Michael Caine movie The Dark Knight

Movie The Dark Knight, character Alfred Pennyworth

Men, Money, World

“one pierced moment whiter than the rest

-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Lie, Sleep

“Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Jealousy

“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over… himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Shoe, Sleep, Loneliness

“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Wolf

“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

World, Dogs

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Life

“Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Life, Training

“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

Love, Understanding, Learning, Reading

“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

God

“And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Sister, Help

“Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

God

“He came for me. I couldn’t believe it.. Into a flying palace full of thousands of armed rakshasas in the middle of a magic jungle.. What was the God damn point of saving him only to watch him throw his life away?
Kate for Curran”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, God, Flying

“If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

World, Heart

“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn."
"She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."

-Ranger and Stephanie”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Weather, Cooking

“Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Brothers in Arms

Variant: "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

Suicide

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking, Heart

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Painting

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

Love

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Disappointment

“He was marrying my girl, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I just had to watch it happen, because he was my brother, because I promised..”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Girl

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

World, Light

“Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.”

Hanif Kureishi book The Buddha of Suburbia

Source: The Buddha of Suburbia

Time

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Beauty

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Hate, People, Truth, Books

“I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. --Conrad”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Night

“Luke could only imagine the odd picture they made: the starving vampire, the dying warlock, and the werewolf keeping watch at the window.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Imagination

“Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone?”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Housing

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Girl

“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Way

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

Children, People, Feeling

“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Love, Children, Waiting

“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”

Iris Murdoch book The Bell

Source: The Bell

Sea

“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.”

Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher

Source: Caught by the Sea

Study, Light, Water, Sea

“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”

Steven D. Levitt book Think Like a Freak

Source: Think Like a Freak

People

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

James Beard (1903–1985) American chef

Thinking

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Life, Time

“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: The Shadow Queen

Love, People

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Smile, Beauty

“The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Time, Past

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Drink, Wine, Cooking

“Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY!

Bindy: Watch me.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

Time

“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Books, Hell

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Effort, Change

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Reading, Night

“Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Sun

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Color, Change

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Joyce Maynard (1953) American writer

Children, Parent, Sun

“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.”

Caroline B. Cooney Both Sides of Time

Source: Both Sides of Time

People, Thinking, Time

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Life, Beauty, Sleep

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Love

“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 (1894–1964) American screenwriter

Books

World, Time, Reading

“When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Feeling

“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life, Home, Sleep, Dance

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Life, People, Reading, Cheating

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Hope, Waiting

“Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Smile, Beauty

“Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early."
-Ranger”

Janet Evanovich book Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

Cars, Guy, Wine, Night

“Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Sleep

“Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Waiting, Sun

“There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

Pain, Feeling

“The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch."

- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)”

Darren Shan book Trials of Death

Source: Trials of Death

Death, Fate, Time, Heart

“She stood lost in eternity… watching the immense sky…”

Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop

Source: The Magic Toyshop

“Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned (2011)
Context: If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Dead

“Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: You Suck

Personality

“I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Angels

“Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic?

"Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking, Light

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Love, Happiness, Youth

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Moms, Sea

“Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: These Shallow Graves

Girl, Boy

“Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Dead

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Way, Time

“Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.”

Keigo Higashino The Devotion of Suspect X

Source: The Devotion of Suspect X

People

“Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Reading

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hunger, Feeling, Game, Flowers

“Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Love, Happiness

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