Quotes by category:Saws

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

saws defense running

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

bullets broadway saws

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

saws political people

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

saws forever feels

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."

temples thieves saws

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

saws mother men

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot. by Don Herold

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

shots saws golf

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

doctors saws want

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

puritan saws atheism

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. by Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

saws blind poetry

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on e... by Donald Cargill

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

joyful saws earth

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

Donald Rumsfeld

saws iraq light

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.... by Don DeLillo

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

harder saws

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

saws president littles

If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars.

Donnell Rawlings

biggie dollars saws

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about... by Doris McCarthy

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

construction saws eye

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

Dorothy Wordsworth

saws stones beautiful

I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is good to know doggy, but that's not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, 'I make signs.''

saws important dog

Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies

week saws office

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.

Douglas Coupland

saws rocks earth