Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

Louise Gluck

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

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Garry Winogrand

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

Frederick Douglass

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Fergie

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

Tobin Bell

There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

Laura Carmichael

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

Mel White

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

Nicolas Cage

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.'

Nora Roberts

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Jacob Zuma

What made Nelson Mandela great, was precisely what made him human. We saw in him, what we seek in ourselves.

Henry A. Kissinger

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

Liane Moriarty

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

Maureen O'Hara

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Meg Cabot

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

Maurice Gibb

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

Lisa Kleypas

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

John Shelby Spong

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

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.

Martin Scorsese

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Jimmy Carr

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

That was pretty much all you needed to know about Cole, right there. He saw something he didn't quite understand, liked it, and took it to be his.

Kate Millett

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Kurtis Blow

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

Gordon Ramsay

No one saw the recession coming.