Saws Quotes - Page 7

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  Barbra Streisand

  Creeps, Wanted, Audience

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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Queens, Would Be, Queen Elizabeth

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Real, Pension Plans

  "Will Young Voters Sink Obama In 2012?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Ricky Williams

  Compassion, Use, Ability

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• I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

  Steven Wright

  Boston, Years, Phoenix

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• Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

  Barbara Pym

  People, Upset, Library

  Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”

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• War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

  Mitch Albom

  War, Men, Sometimes

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Weekend, Two

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• He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Cold, Moments

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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• They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.

  Haven Kimmel

  Jobs, Children, House

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Said, Stills

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• I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Night, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Eye, Surprise

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Organization, Soldier

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• Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Fall, Snow

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Eye, Desire

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Eye, Television

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• He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

  Orson Scott Card

  Missing, Trying, Who We Are

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• When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Doors, Sky, Clouds

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press

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• This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

  Richard Brautigan

  Country, Morning, Ocean

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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