“Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldRealEyeHalfSawsKissingLipsReal WorldScreamInches Book:Couplehood Source: Couplehood
“I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.” IfsThinkingPresidentSawsWifeHugeMarriedHotCrushCharmBootsCowboyBabePresident George W BushFundraiserCowboy BootMy Cowboy Author:Roseanne Barr
“Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy.” IfsThinkingMenFactsJobsOrderProcessDoubtSawsPolicyInterviewsOver YouPantsHomelessUnderwearMcdonaldsResumes Author:Greg Giraldo
“You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.” IfsThinkingMightSawsInstrumentsMusicalChainsRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck IfMusical InstrumentsRedneck HumorFunny Redneck Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingHelpingAbleSaws Author:Angelina Jolie
“I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.” ThinkingWantGivingKidsRememberFacesHoursLaughingSawsStupidArmsMomDecidedLet MeDiedGlassesBurnedI Want YouAntsYour MomGreat DayMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Bill Engvall
“When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.” ThinkingFirstsSchoolAmericaSawsComedyMiddleDramaAngelFirst TimePerformancesSeriesObsessionMaryConsistentlyAmyMiddle SchoolAngels In America Author:Grace Phipps
“My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'” IfsThinkingStarsSawsStreetsMomMy MomGladStealing Author:Sasheer Zamata
“I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.” ThinkingFirstsRoomsSawsPhotographySightNotionMetaphor Author:Robert Polidori
“I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.” ThinkingKindMeanMomentsFeelingsRealityKidsQualityVisionSawsColorI RealizedGloriousSurrealLightingExaggeratedArtificeStaging Author:Laurie Simmons
“You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.” ThinkingStuffSawsDrunkMtv Author:Pauly Shore
“I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanSawsExpression Author:Little Richard
“I saw several actresses play the part. I did not in fact, as far as I know, do anything that any of the other actresses did. I don't think actresses do that. I think that what we do is we see a role as a role, we don't see it as a person. We look at the role and think, 'What can I, as an actor, bring to that part?” ThinkingKnowsLooksPersonsPlayFactsActorsRolesSawsActresses Author:Polly Bergen
“I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.” ThinkingYoungNamesParentBlackSawsRaisedMaidsNutty Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.” ThinkingShouldKindHardShowsMotherViewsDealsTalkingSawsAskingWorkersGoldenEmbarrassedGolden RuleTalking About MoneyBusiness Deals Author:Anne Robinson
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.” ThinkingWritingSongSawsAwfulAuditionsConservatory Author:Regina Spektor
“The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.” PeopleThinkingYearsCharacterShowsJobsActingSawsLuckyTradeTricksCrapShowing OffAnonymityPubs Author:Eddie Marsan
“I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantYearsMindSaidI CanSelfCan DoSawsSelf EsteemChangedPeriodsTrainingWeightSticksSevenAccomplishEsteemPoundsSeven YearsAnything In LifeWeight TrainingGreat Self Esteem Author:Aaron Tippin
“I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.” ThinkingTwoHappensWantedSawsFansHorrorScaryHolesScareCrapThrillersHorror FansSaw Movie Author:Katee Sackhoff
“Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” ThinkingKnowsShouldWritingLittlesLastsGuyCreativeSawsTeacherPleaseLaborBlindCombatCampsCreative WritingConfinedHarpsInstructorsIliad Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.” PeopleThinkingShowsActorsSawsHappenedChangedTelevisionTvsLuckyTv ShowsLooking GoodPresentation Author:Parker Stevenson
“I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoSongNextChanceSleepSupportSawsHeardMinutesMissingTearsMonthsVoteVideoOnlineBowlsFunny ThingsAmazing ThingsSuper BowlMost AmazingTwo MonthsVote For Me Author:Kina Grannis
“Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.” ThinkingWayFirstsWarDoneStarsGrowing UpSawsToo MuchGrowingThese Days Author:Gabriel Campisi
“When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldCountryHomePainPresidentClassSawsPlansMiddleFolksAround The WorldMiddle ClassTonightPushingGet AwayBackwardsTaxpayersHardworking Author:Chris Christie
“I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.” ThinkingYearsStillsEnoughAgeGuyHouseDecisionSawsHorrorDumbStorytellerNineteenBad Decision Author:Craig Finn
“The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarReasonShowsSocialStuffDarkSawsHeroRedTownsCleanInstancePostsWar Of The WorldsThirtyWorld War IHarvestBloomingContinentalAnti Hero Author:Tod Goldberg
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.” ThinkingStatesKidsSchoolFeltBlackWhiteSawsGrewGrew UpSeparationNoticingSuburbsApartheid Author:St. Lucia
“I met him when I was 18. We split up when I was 38. He saw me grow up too. He was a client, and also a friend. Such things are more common than people might think. This arrangement was not so different than many American relationships. That's why the laws against prostitution have got to go. They are totally unfair and mean.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentMightLawGrowsCommonGrowing UpSawsMetsSplitsClientsUnfairArrangementsProstitution Author:Annie Sprinkle
“What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.” ThinkingLittlesBitsSawsStudentsLittle BitJournalistJailFreak Author:Adam Braver
“I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape, or any kind of flow, it's random. Gender...we didn't think much about it. It was sort of interesting to see that women often were choosing women and men often were choosing men. And sometimes they wouldn't and that was fun. I didn't know that I would be excited by that, until I saw it happen.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenKindSometimesHappensWould BeOrderFunInterestingSawsBalanceShapesMen And WomenFlowExcitedGenderMoodAlphabetical Order Author:Lorin Stein
“I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWholeShowsStuffBitsSawsComedyPiecesSeasonsSeriesSevenBusyEightNineFilesStand Up ComedyBits And PiecesX Files Author:Rhys Darby
“When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.” ThinkingWayHardHomeKidsSidesWhiteWalksSawsFrontsMovedTrackGhostForestsRanWay HomeBlurry Author:Rhys Darby
“Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.” ThinkingWorldPlayOpportunityNationsDifferencesSawsCenturyEnglandTablesDinner19th CenturyDiningPingPing PongDining TableTable Tennis Author:Boris Johnson
“I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.” ThinkingLooksBeautifulSawsConnectionsWestImageryJimmyWayneVery BeautifulBeautiful YouJimmy StewartRemingtonWalter Mitty Author:Owen Wilson
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.” ThinkingBelieveKindStillsRealFilmHeavenHalfMillionsSawsFeetAmountShotsPressureDown AndResponseHonestlyGatesThis DayAggressiveArrogantGreat AmericanAmerican Film Author:Richard Masur
“I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.” IfsThinkingFeelsBelieveWellsActorsI BelieveSexTermSawsCraftsSymbolsStereotypeSex Symbol Author:Viola Davis
“I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentGuyCultureProcessSawsPopsThis GuyAmerican CulturePop Culture Author:Adam McKay
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.” ThinkingMenChildrenTwoFatherBlackSawsSeeingTreeStreetsBusinessmanVagrants Author:Toni Morrison
“I looked pretty crazy but at the time, you don't think anything of it. You think, "I've got an amazing job. I'm working and this is cool." I remember I was being fit to go to a premiere for something at Burberry and Christopher Bailey, who designs the clothes there, saw a picture of me and I looked weird. I had short black hair, hardly any eyebrows, I looked very very thin and he went, "We need to put Douglas in a campaign." So four days later, I was shooting a Burberry campaign because he had seen me looking crazy from the show so that was kind of funny.” ThinkingNeedsKindShowsJobsRememberBlackSawsFourCrazyDesignHairFitClothesCampaignsShootingEyebrowsPremieresBlack HairAmazing JobBurberry Author:Douglas Booth
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan
“I was worried before I saw the play 'The Seven Storey Mountain', thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton. He probably wouldn't have either, ideally. Then it isn't. It's more about us and it's about our relationship to what he may or may not have thought about. It's its own thing completely.” ThinkingWantMayPlaySawsWorriedOur Relationship Author:Will Oldham
“How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.” ThinkingTwoWarDoneStoriesSawsMiddleExampleAreasEastSettingSettingsImmigrantsMiddle EastTornRefugeeSymbolicMigrantsFleeingSetting An Example Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being unique, I don't think Mark, Jay, and I really saw how special that aspect of that bromance was until our audience members sort of gave us feedback and let us know, "Hey, we've never seen a bromance like this before on television."” ThinkingKnowsAbleAudienceSawsSpecialTelevisionMembersUniqueAspectMarkHeyFeedbackBeing UniqueBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year.” ThinkingKnowsShouldYearsWellsDoeHas BeensSaidLastsGuyThreeNextSawsSpecialIncrediblesNutsEntertainingLast YearContestsNext YearBounce Author:Steve Kerr
“I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.” ThinkingSaidUsedInterestingLaughingSawsWeekMinutesClothesAngelCharlieNobody CaresCharlie's Angels Author:Cheryl Ladd
“I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.” ThinkingRealAgeYoungSawsSixYoung AgePredator Author:Katee Sackhoff