Saws Quotes:

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

- Aaron Paul

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Saws, Cherish

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Greatness, Hands, Saws

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

- Adam Clarke

topic: Degrees, Saws, Spirit, Matthew

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

- Al Pacino

topic: Believe, People, Saws

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

- Alain Resnais

topic: New York, Singing, Saws

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

- Alan Ball

topic: Growing Up, Vampire, Saws

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

- Alan Bennett

topic: Civilization, Saws, Ends

When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Eye, Perfection, Saws, Fragmented

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

- Alan Vega

topic: Saws, Pops, Changed

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

- Albert Camus

topic: Saws, Firsts, Rooms

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

- Albert J. Nock

topic: Parent, Might, Saws

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Eye, Speech, Saws, Convalescence

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

- Alexander Ovechkin

topic: Puck, Saws, Rebound

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

- Alexander Shulgin

source: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

topic: Children, Magic, Saws

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Destiny, Beginnings And Ends, Saws

The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Angel, Saws

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

- Alexej von Jawlensky

source: Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

topic: Soul, Saws, Painting

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

- Ali Khamenei

topic: People, Rehabilitation, Saws

When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.

- Ali Landry

topic: Sweat, Saws, Size, Paperwork, Swimsuits

Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.

- Ally Carter

topic: Jail, Interesting, Saws, Hale

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

- Amanda Ripley

source: Amanda Ripley (2013). “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

topic: Parent, Saws, Cheerleader

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

- Amber Heard

topic: Thinking, Saws, Horror, Carnal Knowledge, Saw Movie

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me,

- Amelia Bloomer

topic: Hands, History, Saws

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

- America Ferrera

topic: Musical, Chicago, Saws

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.

- Amy Adams

source: Source: collider.com

topic: School, Dinner, Saws

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

- Amy Tan

topic: Children, Fighting, Saws, Joy Luck Club, Knitting Needles

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Saws, Pictures Of Myself

The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

- Andrew Bryniarski

topic: Saws, Site

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

- Andrew Garfield

topic: Stones, Saws, Firsts

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

topic: Careers, Saws, Firsts, Super Star, Screening

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

- Andy Garcia

topic: Father, Cuba, Saws

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

- Angela Davis

topic: Saws, Individual, Particular

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Badass, Ambition, Saws

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

- Angus Young

topic: Purple, Saws, Ridiculous, Deep Purple

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Girl, Choices, Saws

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Names, Nurse, Saws

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Saws, Firsts, First Time

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

- Anna Funder

source: Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Eye, Watches, Saws

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Noses, Next, Saws, Truman Show

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

- Anna Nicole Smith

topic: Men, Sick, Saws, Physical Attraction

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

- Anne Bancroft

topic: Teacher, Lucky, Saws

Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Want, Saws, Most Inspiring

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

- Anne Rice

topic: Eyelashes, Ankles, Saws

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Eye, Saws, Spirit

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

- Anwar Sadat

topic: Believe, Important, Saws

If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

- Arabella Weir

topic: People, Saws, Weight, Fattening

The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

- Arj Barker

topic: Guy, Way, Saws, Motor Vehicles

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: May, Saws

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Saws, Excitement, Passing

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons (1907). “Cities of Italy”

topic: Venice, Saws, Realist

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Kissing, Saws, Feels

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

- Asa Gray

topic: Annoyed, Lasts, Saws

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: People, Saws, Actresses

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

- Audrey Meadows

topic: Fans, Looks, Saws, Meadows

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

- August Wilson

topic: Watches, Half, Saws, Cosby Show

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Guy, Style, Saws

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Saws, Creeps, Wanted

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

- Barry White

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Truth, Hypocrisy, Saws

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

- Bayazid Bastami

topic: Shining, Silence, Saws

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

- Bebe Neuwirth

topic: Hair, Broadway, Saws, Broadway Shows

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

- Bebe Neuwirth

topic: Children, Saws, Concerts

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Way, Saws, Let Me, Finale

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

- Bede Griffiths

topic: Saws, Made, Existence, Seeking God

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

- Bella Thorne

topic: Voice, Singers, Saws

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

- Belle Boyd

source: Belle Boyd (1998). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.265, LSU Press

topic: Saws

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

- Ben Bradlee

topic: Thinking, Saws, Passionate

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

- Ben Roethlisberger

source: "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

topic: Fields, Saws, Building, Kent, Ben Roethlisberger

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

- Ben Sherwood

source: Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam

topic: Beautiful, Moon, Saws, Full Moon, Small Places

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Death, Food, Saws

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Saws, Should, Avarice

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

- Bernard Lagat

topic: Parent, Matter, Saws

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

- Big Jim Sullivan

topic: Two, People, Saws, Congressman, Amelia

They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

- Bill Maher

topic: Japan, Regulation, Saws, Business Environment

I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Long, Care, Saws, Reckless Abandon

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Airplane, Next, Saws, Airplane Crashes

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

- Billy Childish

topic: Artist, Saws, Ends

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Sids, Saws, Firsts

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

- Billy Graham

topic: Saws, Ruth, Bells, Road Sign

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

- Black Elk

topic: Lying, People, Saws

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

- Bliss Carman

source: Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

topic: Feet, Saws, Untamed, Ledges, Scarlet

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

- Bo Burnham

topic: Deer, Saws, Necks, Giraffe

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...

- Bob Dylan

topic: Ungrateful, Might, Saws, Des Moines

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

- Bob Feller

topic: Sports, Player, Saws

I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

- Bob Monkhouse

topic: Thinking, Phrases, Saws

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

- Bob Newhart

topic: Comedian, Saws, Way, Reefs

She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.

- Bob Seger

topic: Faces, Saws, Compliment

When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Wrestling, Lasts, Saws, Barbers, Barber Shop

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Saws, Losing, Chance

In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

- Bonaventure

topic: Beautiful, Ladders, Saws, Desirable

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

- Bonnie Raitt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Black And White, Men, Saws, Uncool

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

- Boris Spassky

topic: Champion, Saws, Young

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Saws, Opinion, Film

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

- Brent Weeks

topic: Armor, Body, Saws, Drooling

I came, I saw, I was confused.

- Breyten Breytenbach

topic: Confused, Saws, Disorder

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

- Brian Johnson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Village, Saws, Cold, Rolls Royce

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

- Brian May

topic: Saws, Hendrix, Yeah

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Beautiful, Years, Saws, Stunned, Pictures Of Myself

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

- Bruce Catton

source: Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

topic: Understanding, Saws, Patient, Hard Core

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Reign, Saws, Corny, Obsolescence

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

- Burleigh Grimes

topic: Mean, Saws, Sides

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

- Byron Katie

topic: Humility, Saws, Lifetime

She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since...since the minute I first saw you.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Want, Saws, Firsts

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

- Cab Calloway

topic: Fun, Saws, Segregation, Reefs

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

- Callie Khouri

source: "The Movie Callie Khouri Has 'Seen A Million Times'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, news.stlpublicradio.org. October 14, 2012.

topic: Crowds, Faces, Saws, Early 20s

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Gone, Extinction, Saws

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

- Carly Patterson

topic: Winning, Saws, Wanted, Scoreboard, Reefs

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

- Carol Leifer

topic: Saws, Advantage

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

source: Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

topic: Air, Earth, Saws

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

- Carson Kressley

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thoughtful, Saws, Serious, Skittles

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Love, Happy Anniversary, Saws, Infernal Devices, Love At First Sight

People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.

- Cassandra Peterson

topic: Kids, People, Saws

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

- Chanel Iman

topic: Firsts, Magazines, Saws

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Saws, Miami, Streets

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

- Charles A. Reich

source: charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

topic: Rewards, Our Society, Saws

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: People, Vision, Saws

She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Gone, Saws, Pausing

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Thinking, Ego, Saws, Militant

I came, I saw, God conquered.

- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

topic: Saws

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

- Charley Pride

topic: Father, Saws, Cry

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

- Charley Pride

topic: Television, Saws

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

- Charlie Crist

topic: Saws, Republican, Activist

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

- Charlie Day

topic: Guy, Comedian, Saws

I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

- Charlie Viracola

topic: Snakes, Yards, Saws, Shovels, Cables

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

- Chief Joseph

topic: War, Saws

I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

topic: Energy, Use, Saws

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

- Chris Evans

topic: Dance, Woods, Saws, Swear To God

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that

- Chris Kattan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hollywood, Lasts, Saws

I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.

- Chris Pine

topic: Thinking, Saws, Firsts

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

- Chris Pine

topic: Sexy, Trying, Saws, Cockneys

If anyone ever saw me dance, they'd have trouble taking me seriously.

- Christina Ricci

topic: Saws, Trouble

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

- Christopher Hampton

topic: Play, Saws, Firsts

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

- Christopher Judge

topic: Thinking, Mind, Saws, Sounder, Reefs

From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Eye, Blow, Saws

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

- Christopher Walken

topic: Two, Saws, Made

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Military, Saws, Firsts, Military Aviation, Aircraft

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

- Claire Forlani

topic: Saws, Firsts, Migraine

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

- Clarence Thomas

topic: College, Way, Saws, Reefs, Rejecting

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

- Colleen Haskell

topic: Watches, Saws, Film, Memento

I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

- Connie Brockway

topic: Loneliness, Saws, Lifetime

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

- Connie Sellecca

topic: Art, Paper, Saws, Crayon, Tsunami

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Believe, Saws, Cold, All The Pretty Horses

This is so weird. I saw the new John Kerry campaign commercial and he says, 'I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message - if I have one.'

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Campaigns, Saws, Messages

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Makeup, Saws, Without Makeup

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Sorry, Saws, Wild Things

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

- D. T. Max

source: D. T. Max (2012). “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace”, p.182, Penguin

topic: Agreement, Community, Saws

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

- Damon Lindelof

source: "Lost in Space: A Chat With Prometheus Writer-Producer Damon Lindelof". Interview with Gregory Weinkauf, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.

topic: Twists, Half, Saws

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

- Dan Rice

topic: Men, Coffins, Saws

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

- Dane Cook

topic: Laughing, Parent, Saws, Missed Ones

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

- Daniel Defoe

source: Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.50, Book Jungle

topic: Clouds, Storm, Saws

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Adventure, Way, Saws

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

- Daniel Pinkwater

source: Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1989). “Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle”

topic: Dog, People, Saws, Old Dog

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Names, Way, Saws

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

- Dar Williams

topic: Saws, Firsts, Concerts

I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's

- Dave Dutton

topic: Alcohol, Saws, Clients

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Saws, Rock N Roll, Importance, Minimalism, Importance Of Music

God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.

- David Bentley Hart

source: David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.18, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Saws, Firsts, Creation

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

- David Blaine

topic: Islands, Rope, Saws, Boardwalks, Coney Island

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

- David Brainerd

source: David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

topic: Heart, Heaven, Saws

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

- David Cook

source: "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

topic: Rocks, Saws, Shows

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

- David Copperfield

topic: Saws, Fairy, Slave, Captives

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

- David Gest

topic: Different, Way, Saws, Booze

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

- David Hurn

topic: Photography, Saws, Photographer

You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

- David Levithan

topic: Waiting, Today, Saws, Waiting For You

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

- David Levithan

topic: Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

- David Livingstone

topic: Feet, Space, Saws

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

- David McCullough

topic: Book, Age, Saws

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

- David Oyelowo

topic: Drama, School, Saws

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

- David Sedaris

source: "Author, Author?" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.

topic: Toilets, Saws, Scream, Leprechaun

I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

- David Wong

topic: Men, Practice, Saws

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

- Davy Jones

topic: Summer, Saws, Gems

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.

- Davy Jones

topic: Saws, Groupie

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

- Dawn French

topic: Play, Theatre, Saws, Rocky Horror, Favourite Things

Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

- Debby Ryan

topic: Kids, Saws, Comedy

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

- Deborah Harkness

topic: Saws, Holes, Carpet

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

- Del Shannon

topic: Song, Tape, Saws

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

- Demetri Martin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Im Sorry, Saws, Catapults

I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Saws, T Shirt, Shirts, Transvestites

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

- Dennis Potter

topic: Airports, Saws, Illness, Terminal Illness

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

- Derek Jacobi

topic: Doors, Supportive, Saws, Opened Doors

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

- Dhani Harrison

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, Iron, Saws, Iron Maiden, Maiden Names

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Saws, Would Be, Monkeys

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

- Dianne Wiest

source: Interview with Leslie Rigoulot at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

topic: Broadway, Bullets, Saws

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.

- Diogenes

topic: Thieves, Littles, Saws, Treasurer

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

- Dolores Huerta

topic: Mother, Men, Saws

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

- Don Herold

topic: Golf, Saws, Shots

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

- Don McLean

source: Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

topic: Laughing, Delight, Saws, American Pie

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

- Donald Cargill

topic: Earth, Saws, Joyful, Joyful Moments, Being Joyful

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Saws, Gaddafi, Nuclear

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Light, Iraq, Saws

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

- Doris McCarthy

topic: Eye, Saws, Construction

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness ...

- Dorothy Wordsworth

source: "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25

topic: Beautiful, Stones, Saws, Daffodil

I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.''

- Doug Benson

source: Twitter post from Apr 22, 2013

topic: Dog, Important, Saws

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Rocks, Saws, Earth

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

- Duane Michals

topic: Writing, Way, Saws

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

- Duke of Wellington

source: On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12

topic: Life, Saws, Hats

I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit.

- Dwayne McDuffie

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Kids, Saws, Detroit

The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was Wedding Crashers.

- Ed Weeks

topic: Saws, Firsts, Wedding Crasher

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

- Eddie Gibbs

topic: Church, Saws, Century

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Unity, Flesh, Saws

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

- Edith Hamilton

source: Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

topic: Men, Trying, Saws