Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Levine

You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.

Pete Best

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Quentin Crisp

I never saw Portsmouth by day.

Walt Whitman

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

Roberto Benigni

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

Robert Barry

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

Rodney King

I saw my hometown burning that day.

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.

Sally Ride

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

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.

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.

Roman Sebrle

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

Mike Judge

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

Peter Gallagher

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

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.

Suzanne Collins

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

Sophie Kinsella

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?

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.

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.

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.

Sigrid Undset

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

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.