Famous quotes containing the word watched:
“I have watched ... many literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen come and go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until youve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
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