Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Try to find if something out there is similar. If it's already being done, now you need to find out if you can do it better or cheaper. If you have a good product and no one's buying, improve it and tweak it.

Cam Newton

I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

C. S. Lewis

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Burton Cummings

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.

Busta Rhymes

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

Bryant H. McGill

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Bryant H. McGill

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

Celia Imrie

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Carter Burwell

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Carrot Top

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

Alan Garner

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Alan Dershowitz

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Al Yankovic

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Al Yankovic

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

Alain de Botton

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Ed McBain

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Elizabeth David

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth Bowen

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

Elena Anaya

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

Deepak Chopra

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Dionne Warwick

I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

Dave Morin

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Dave Mustaine

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

Dave Ramsey

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

Edward Witten

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

Abdul Kalam

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

Aaron Carter

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

Julia Sawalha

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.