Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

Gena Rowlands

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

Gary McCord

They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.

Frederick Wiseman

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.

Freeman Dyson

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

Erica Durance

Any kind of advice that I've been given to cut out carbs forever, don't do it. It just doesn't work. You do okay for a while and then you just overcarb.

Eric Cantor

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

Eric Cantor

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

George Horace Lorimer

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

George Herbert

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

Christine Feehan

Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections." Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that house, but personally, I'm not about to get anywhere near it with anything resembling a weapon.

Christian Serratos

I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

Chrisette Michele

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Chris Tucker

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Chris Patten

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Chris Pratt

As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role.

Chris Pratt

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

Chris Pine

My nipples could cut glass.

George W. Bush

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

George W. Bush

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

George W. Bush

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

George W. Bush

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

George W. Bush

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

George Plimpton

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

George Orwell

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

George R. R. Martin

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

George R. R. Martin

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

George R. R. Martin

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

George R. R. Martin

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

George R. R. Martin

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

George R. R. Martin

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

George Carlin

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.