Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Mansfield

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

Kim Harrison

They tried to kill me,” he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. “You saw them!” “Yeah?” I spouted off. “They weren’t very good at it!” (Trent and Rachel)

He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise.

J. K. Rowling

Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —

Grace Metalious

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself,

Grace Paley

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

Harold Pinter

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.

Justin Amash

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.

Patrick O'Brian

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

Patrick Ness

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

Nellie Bly

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

Olivia Thirlby

'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

Oscar Wilde

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

Mia Kirshner

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Martha Grimes

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

Michel de Montaigne

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Christina Ricci

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

Neale Donald Walsch

If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Mark David Chapman

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Louise Gluck

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

Joe Pantoliano

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

Joe Queenan

It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I'd always thought the three scariest words in the English language were 'starring Dan Aykroyd.'

Joe Gold

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Jim Lampley

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Annalee Newitz

The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

Neal Stephenson

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

Mick Jagger

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

Nick Kroll

Mel Brooks came to see Oh, Hello in L.A. Mulaney and I had a meeting with him, and we invited him to come to the show, and he saw the Oh, Hello show live in L.A. To me, he's the most famous person. Having him come to our show that was so inspired by both of us loving The Producers and all his movies.