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Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.138, Wesleyan University Press

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.103

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Penguin

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

"Romola Garai interview: On a roll". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd