All Quotes

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
‐‐ Lisa Kudrow

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.
‐‐ Martin Amis

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.
‐‐ Clive Davis

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
‐‐ Melvin Maddocks

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
‐‐ Carol P. Christ

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
‐‐ Jamal Lewis

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
‐‐ Charles Platt

Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn't get new episodes until two years after they ran, and I was aware of the show's cancellation before the characters themselves knew, at least in my corner of the world.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel

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

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.
‐‐ Ashley Scott

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.
‐‐ Erika Christensen

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.
‐‐ Shanola Hampton

Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'
‐‐ La India

Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
‐‐ Jet Li

Watching movies is my one distraction.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.
‐‐ Jo Webber

Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.
‐‐ Juliet Rylance

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
‐‐ Ron Blomberg

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
‐‐ Nick Mason

Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.
‐‐ Tony Parker

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.
‐‐ Brian Sibley

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
‐‐ Al Roker

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
‐‐ Jeremy Paxman

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn