Best Saws Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.”

Years Firsts Saws First Time Eight Nine Sunset Elegant Nine Years Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.”

Trying Use Growth Saws Products Phones Appropriate Devices Mobile Iphone Apps Stunned Androids

Author:Max Levchin

“I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.”

Different Opportunity Path Saws College Becoming Leaving Academic

Author:Jodie Foster

“I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.”

Mean Home Law Saws Crime Needed Protect Towns Victim Protection Crowns Attorney Home Town Nova Scotia Novas

Author:Peter MacKay

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.”

Children Saws Concerts Very Strong

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.”

Firsts Shows Saws Hair Broadway Broadway Shows

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”

Thinking Stills Guy Fighting My Own Saws Fairs Focused Selfish Righteous Arrogant Unfair Good Guy Being Selfish

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.”

Saws Crime Venezuela

Author:Jo Nesbo

“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.”

Has Beens Bigs Stars Difficult Saws Feet Painting Band Jazz Size Currents Portraits 80s Life Size

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.”

Years Wanted Acting Class Saws Grew Involved Grew Up Managers Agency Michigan Missouri

Author:Evan Peters

“I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.”

Causes Education Saws Trouble Noses Lunch Buddy Dean

Author:Bobby Vee

“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!”

Race Saws Jew Screens

Author:Marlon Brando

“I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.”

People World Years Hard Age Race Rich Saws Wise Middle Kings Activity Jew Wander France Fifty Nevertheless Rude Middle Ages Owing Obstinacy Personification Greediness

Author:George Sand

“When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.”

Saws Cold Hot Size Broke Sweat Flash Trainers Superstar Paperwork Swimsuits Hot Flashes

Author:Ali Landry

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”

Knows Trying Bigs Brain Break Saws Football Hero Mets Beats England Studios Drunk Scotland My Hero Refrigerators Football Match

Author:Andy Partridge

“People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Made Kids Felt Saws Normal My Favorite Come Up Conventions Geek Favorites Things Outcast Goth

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.”

Years Shows Reality Eye Law Order Cases Saws Cold Dad Seven Bunch Legacy Episodes Seven Years Handful Baggage Being A Dad Cold Case

Author:Danny Pino

“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.”

States Remember President Saws Finished Kitchen Serving Chef Head Of State Nehru Tito

Author:Jacques Pepin

“There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.”

Has Beens Moments Home Memories Saws Tears Emotional Red Planes Soil Touching Delhi

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.”

Firsts Wells Wanted Actors Saws Singers Painter Arabia Carpenter Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Michael Pitt

“2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.”

Years Roles Saws Fantastic Great Year

Author:Oliver Platt

“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”

Government Economy Saws Activity Weak Crisis Financial Excuse Restraint Entrepreneurial Financial Crisis

Author:Rob Portman

“When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.”

Thinking Three Stars Saws Theater Obsessed Three Times

Author:Todd Phillips

“I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.”

Ifs Way Watches Saws Approach Concern Balls Lackadaisical

Author:Mike Quade

“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.”

Way Stills Country States Lasts Sports United United States Saws Seeing One Thing Missing Changed Western My Way Last Time Great Sports Pristine Hitchhiking Open Road

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.”

People Thinking Loses Emotion Saws Wonderful Land Intense Jimmy Wonderful Life Scorsese It's A Wonderful Life Jimmy Stewart Intense Emotions

Author:David O. Russell

“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.”

People Way Feels Jobs Felt Audience Saws Directors Tough Surprise Fighter Princess Amy Tough Women

Author:David O. Russell

“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”

Knows Ideas Film Left Saws Happened Feet Six Theater No Idea Cinema Twins Floating Craziest Twin Peaks

Author:Jacques Rivette

“When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.”

Firsts Heart Littles Felt Saws First Time Jessica

Author:Lee Ryan

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

Children Mother My Own Cases Saws Happened Example Particular News Response Mistreated

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”

World Firsts Littles Play Water My Own Saws First Time Inspired Guitar Staying My Sister Amusement Jimmy Roger Muddy

Author:Otis Rush

“My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.”

Ifs Saws Marketing Entertainment Backgrounds Goods Packages

Author:Fred Seibert

“The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.”

Firsts Wanted Saws Sweet First Time Aliens

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.”

Writing School Saws Talent Late Teens Zines

Author:Sonja Sohn

“My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.”

People Children Reason My Own Saws Perception Neighborhood No Reason Cop

Author:Sonja Sohn

“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.”

People Believe Hard Wanted Used Artist Song My Own Records Saws Industry Mountain Built Reputation Labels Believe In Me Songwriters Clown Record Labels

Author:Emeli Sande

“When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.”

People Want Technology Saws Color Tvs Marketing Glasses Connected Stores Sat Introducing New Experiences Retail Introducing New

Author:Howard Stringer

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Able Happiness Saws Buddhism Keys Perception State Of Mind Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.”

Firsts Saws Band Suits Brown Mike

Author:Jeff Lynne

“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.”

Men Said Waiting White Growing Up Saws Growing Discrimination White Man Segregation Racial Discrimination

Author:John Lewis

“I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.”

Home Might School Saws College High School Entertaining Outsiders Schooled

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.”

People Giving Trying Shows Left Acting Class Saws Shots Paid West Hey Episodes Coast Bugs Arizona West Coast Acting Classes

Author:Christine Taylor

“Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.”

Enemy Saws Chinese Poison Opium

Author:Robert Trout

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