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"Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else."
"But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane."
"I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira"
"When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history."
"The better you are, the closer they watch."
"I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches."
"People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now."
"Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back."
"It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas."
"I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!"
"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again."
"One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you."
"Watch your habits, they determine your character."
"I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all."
"Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."
"So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn."
"Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation."
"They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority."
"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
