“When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.” MenSaidWaitingWhiteGrowing UpSawsGrowingDiscriminationWhite ManSegregationRacial Discrimination Author:John Lewis
“I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.” PeopleFirstsPersonsSaidActingClassLaughingSawsTeacherCryI RealizedQuittingComedianThey SaidActing ClassesStand Up Comedian Author:Wendy Liebman
“I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn strong. I mean, the people see a better future.” PeopleMeanSaidAmericaStrongSawsIraqTrackPollsBetter FutureRight Track Author:George W. Bush
“My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.” WantHeartSaidBigsGirlBreakSawsEasierPaperStringsI Want YouAuditionsCeremonyMaxLizStrings AttachedNew GirlNo Strings Attached Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?” MindLooksSaidCountryGuyOpportunitySidesHoursSawsSellingDirtGlancesThat GuyTennesseeGreat Country Author:Bill Hicks
“Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'” SaidPlayShowsSongSawsCoupleMusic IsRingsHotelTicketsThey SaidSo SadBlues MusicSad Song Author:Buddy Guy
“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.” WayFeelsFirstsSaidStarsSportsSawsFirst TimeWoodsTigersSuperstar Author:Gary Player
“I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.” MenSaidFightingRoomsSawsFuturePaperFilledSigningPremonition Author:Pete Seeger
“Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.” KnowsWayYearsMindLooksSaidRealPlayCertainFunSawsTaughtYears AgoAgreeTheatreHeyMaskOperaPhantoms Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.” ThinkingSaidSawsFamiliarPhrasesSpecialists Author:Bob Monkhouse
“Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.” SaidJobsFoundIndividualSawsRevolutionIslamAppropriateInappropriate Author:Ruhollah Khomeini
“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.” WorldWaySaidWould BeMotherOrderSocialLibertySawsGroupsFitDaughterOrganizationBasesFavorsOppositionNeighborhoodCooperationAnarchistSocial Organization Author:Karl Hess
“When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.” IfsLittlesSaidIdeasBeautifulFacesSawsTelevisionHairMessGood IdeasGorgeousSuckerWrestler Author:Muhammad Ali
“Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."” LittlesSaidSawsOfficialsTemplesBelongingThievesBowlsStolenTreasurer Author:Diogenes
“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.” SaidHandsSawsWrittenFoodBabyTeaDamnChipsMenusDamn ThingsFish And Chips Author:Arnold Wesker
“There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.” MenLittlesSaidIdeasPlayGuyFeltPresidentSawsEffectsScriptsScreensNo IdeaAttractiveGood IdeasPilotsThis GuyThirteenGemsCockyHarperBeing Cocky Author:John Gallagher, Jr.
“I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.” MenSaidBookRememberReadingDifferencesSawsWrittenMen And WomenTime TravelTravelerDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Vivienne Westwood
“The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.” WellsLongSaidTruthLastsSawsLong TimeWeedKnivesPathwaysAstonishment Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems
“I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.” MenSaidLyingSawsHe ManRoundsRanHorizonCriedDisturbedSped Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems
“I knew a girl named Nikki I guess u could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine She said "how'd u like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.” LittlesSaidGirlSexSawsMetsWasteMagazinesHotelGrindHotel Lobby Author:Prince
“I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.” LongSaidCountryDoneHandsRealityHoursSawsProveClockPushingSessionLegislatureStatutesTravestyPushing OnProve Me Wrong Author:L. Neil Smith
“This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.” KnowsYearsSaidNextBoysStudySawsTerribleMarriedNewsResponsiblePrisonPrisonerIndifferentNext DayGood NewsNext YearStanfordMadhousesSuperintendents Author:Philip Zimbardo
“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.” MindFirstsHumansHeartSaidTwoStatesPoliticalHumanityNationsUnderstandingSawsShareHuman NatureDutyMy HeartMetsConcernUniversalUnionsIncludingEightCampaignsPresidentialContinuingSeventiesInvolvementFirst LadyPolitical LifePresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.” WayPersonsSaidFallNextIndividualSportsLinesSawsOppositesAdmireCourageousCowardConformityNext TimeCompensationBe CourageousNightingales Author:Bob Proctor
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.” SaidParentBoysSawsNiceObjectsSilentEightNineLife ChangingNeighborhoodIgnored1960sVery NiceDiscs Author:Steven M. Greer
“President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'” SaidFacesPresidentSawsNiceEconomicChinaFriendlyPresident ObamaSummitPutinAttendingMidtermsFriendly Faces Author:Conan O'Brien
“Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.'” MeanSaidStatesGovernmentUsedWorrySawsClintonPreservesAddressesSecretaryEmailScandalArchives Author:Jimmy Fallon
“A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldSaidSawsFourHundredOrganizationMakersFactoriesRollingVisitingCigarStood UpSmokersHavana Author:Groucho Marx
“I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.” IfsYearsSaidChristianJesusGivenNumbersChristianitySawsFiguresPercentPrisonAriseSatCommunistMaryDictatorshipWeepingTombsMary Magdalene Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"” KnowsLongDoeSaidMatterDoneFactsPainSawsExpressionResponseComplicatedExperimentsOccasionsTherapyInjuryDrsPsychologistIncorporatingPedanticVirtuosity Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my coins. I said, "I don't trust in God," what is this? And I recalled there was something in the Constitution that said you're not allowed to do that and so I did some research. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. It's a cool thing to do. Everyone should try it.” ShouldTryingSaidLawSidesSawsAtheismOne DayResearchConstitutionI RealizedSuitsThings To DoTrust In GodCoinsDon't TrustCool ThingsGod We Trust Author:Michael Newdow
“In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.” BelievePersonsSaidForceI BelieveSawsHappenedAirPaidCamerasWingsPlanesUfoAir ForceBelgians Author:Robert Stack
“I was 13 when I first saw my mum's films. There were these boys who said to me, 'Your mum makes sexy films,' and I said, 'She doesn't.' Then I watched them and my mum makes sexy films! I'm a huge fan of my mum.” FirstsSaidFilmBoysSawsFansHugeSexyMumYour Mum Author:Alice Englert