These chainsaw quotes will inspire you. A chainsaw is a mechanical power-driven cutting tool with teeth set on a chain that moves around the edge of a blade.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging chainsaw quotes, chainsaw sayings, and chainsaw proverbs.
Famous Chainsaw Quotes
- “My life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw” ~ Thomas McGuane
- “Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “I guess now would be a good time to tell you,” He said. “I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
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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
- “If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I’m actually a very compulsive person … I’d chainsaw people.” ~ Brendon Urie
- “If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you’ll see it in a different kind of light” ~ Tobe Hooper
- “A chainsaw’s God’s way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.” ~ Jennifer L. Knox
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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
- “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
- “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
- “If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.” ~ Nigel Short
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn’t want her to learn any bad language.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “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
- “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
- “Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it’ s a tool; “I’ll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw”. I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?” ~ Banksy
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“‘We have to be back in three hours,’ Ronan said. ‘I just fed Chainsaw but she’ll need it again.’ ‘This,’ Gansey replied, ‘is precisely why I didn’t want to have a baby with you.'” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “Can I get a lock for my tent? Bears can’t unzip tents, Lana. Well, chainsaw psychos who wander the woods looking for young girls all alone to chop up into pieces can. There are no chainsaw psychos! I can’t believe you’ve never been camping. It’s safe, Lana. I promise. Easy for you to say. You’ll be snuggled up safely in the arms of Beau Vincent. I’m more than positive he could take on a black bear.” ~ Abbi Glines
- “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
- “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
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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
- “Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.” ~ Russell Simmons
- “Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.” ~ Lester Bangs
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“Personally, I say, “Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.” However, that one’s having a rough time catching on.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
- “Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: ‘CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS’. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? ‘As one victim to another,’ his body language seems to marvel, ‘What’s a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?’ Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.” ~ Alexander Masters
- “Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!” ~ Mark Mason
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“I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.” ~ Jo Brand
- “I don’t really watch movies at all. I don’t even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I’ve seen that, but I definitely don’t have a favorite.” ~ Jermell Charlo
- “When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000-year-old redwood tree, it’s ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it’s ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it’s my heart that’s being blown to smithereens.” ~ David Foreman
