Chainsaw Quotes

• Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mouths, Please, Bits

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

  Thomas McGuane

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• I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Would Be, Good Times

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

  Brendon Urie

  People, Serial Killer, Killers

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• It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Imagination, Levels

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• I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

  Jessica Biel

  Texas, Fans, Firsts

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• If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

  Tobe Hooper

  Light, Different, Firsts

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• A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Stuff, Way, Fields

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• I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece

  Tobe Hooper

  Thinking, Pieces, Tone

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• I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

  Amber Heard

  Running, Class, Self

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

  Nigel Short

  Giants, Logging, Chess

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• Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Father, Clay, Use

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.175, Random House Canada

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• I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

  Susan Orlean

  Birthday, Cutting, Thinking

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Soul, Ruins, World

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• On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

  Joel Salatin

  Hate, Animal, Disrespect

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• When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

  Nico Mirallegro

  Hair, Six, Talent

  "Why we are watching... Nico Mirallegro". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Irritation, Want, Language

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

  John Waters

  Texas, People, Hitchhiking

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.

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• I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.

  Jim Benton

  Tattoo, Swans, White

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.53, Scholastic

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• I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Texas

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Army, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

  Christopher Bollen

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• I'm 24, and a lot of people my age grew up listening to bands that were big and making it from around here. I was going to Flaming Lips and Chainsaw Kittens concerts when I was 12, and getting my mind blown at a young age... and maybe for people in bands, there's irreparable damage from those kind of things, and it turns out weirder bands.

  Josh Jones

  People, Listening, Mind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

  Lee Child

  Running, Men, Average

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.175, Delacorte Press

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• Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12...the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like." That definitely changed things.

  Josh Jones

  People, Kind, Kitten

  Source: pitchfork.com

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