Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Anton Chekhov

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Gerald R. Ford

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Jeremy Lin

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Jacki Weaver

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Kathy Griffin

Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

Seth Godin

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Ann Brashares

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

Ronnie Reyes

We're still making mistakes that are haunting us. What do you do?

Franz Kafka

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Night Shyamalan

Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.

Lisa Kleypas

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Nigel Kneale

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

Walter de La Mare

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Asafa Powell

People have been saying that there might be a curse stopping me from getting my first major title, but I have proven to the world that I can do it. This might sound a little shocking, but we were not really training for this.

Anthony Daniels

Listen to them, they're dying, R2. Curse my metal body. I wasn't fast enough. It's all my fault. My poor master.

Mark Cuban

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

African Proverbs

It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Tommy Bowden

I didn't do anything different ... So I think the (Thursday night) curse will eventually turn.

Larry Brown

I didn't curse him. I hadn't talked to him the whole game. Obviously he thought I went over the line and that's his prerogative. Those things happen. It's the first game I got kicked out.

Nick Green

I don't know what's happening. Maybe we're cursed or something.

Mike Young

He just cursed at me and was yelling, 'Get away ... save me, Jesus. At that point, he was lying on his stomach and kept trying to roll into the road.