Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Stan Musial

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Stephen Chbosky

And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Tim Burton

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Rodney King

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Rob Zombie

Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".

Richelle Mead

I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.

Robert Barry

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

Roberto Benigni

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Sally Ride

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

Lennox Lewis

When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

Shunryu Suzuki

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Samuel Johnson

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Roman Sebrle

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

Sigrid Undset

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Steve Harvey

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Steve Antin

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

Stephen Covey

Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw.

Suzanne Collins

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Steven Millhauser

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Ron Chernow

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Rick Riordan

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

Rubens Barrichello

When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so.

William Cowper

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.