Saws Quotes

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

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

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

You all saw him - he had a gun.

Did you see Britney Spears at the Video Music Awards? I don't want to say that that performance was a disaster, but after the show, I saw Rudy Giuliani having his picture taken standing on her.

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since...since the minute I first saw you.

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself.

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.