Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

Woody Allen

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

Woody Allen

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.

William Shatner

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.

William Merritt Chase

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

William Moseley

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.'' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

William Moseley

For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.

William J. Clinton

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

William Fichtner

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

William Gibson

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Will Champion

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

Will Ferrell

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

Sarah Silverman

I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.

Sara Zarr

Try a little tenderness ...

Sarah Addison Allen

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Sarah Addison Allen

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Sarah Addison Allen

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

Sara Blakely

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

Sara Blakely

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

William Faulkner

Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

William Faulkner

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

William Faulkner

The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.

Willem Dafoe

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

Ronald Reagan

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Tori Amos

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Tori Amos

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Vanessa Hudgens

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

Vanessa Hudgens

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

Vance Havner

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

Valentina Zelyaeva

You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

Uma Thurman

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

Umberto Eco

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.