Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rufus Wainwright

I like to try new things.

Rufus Wainwright

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

Roy Bean

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

Robert Jordan

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

Robert Jordan

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Robert Jordan

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Robert Jordan

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Rodney Crowell

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Roberto Unger

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Robertson Davies

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Robert Stone

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Robert Palmer

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Robert Fisk

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Wes Anderson

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

Walt Mossberg

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

Vincent Cassel

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

Vinod Khosla

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Walt Whitman

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

Tom Mison

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

Tom Morello

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Tom Heinsohn

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

Tom Hanks

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

Toby Turner

I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something like “BOOGABOOGABOOGADOBLUH I'M A PERSON BLUHBLUHBLGUHGHGGHGH”. That appeals to everybody.

Tina Fey

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

Tina Fey

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

Thurston Moore

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

Sam Ewing

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.

Sal Mineo

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasnt trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

S. J. Perelman

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

S. E. Hinton

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Russell Wilson

I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though.

Russell Simmons

I don't know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It's the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.