Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Dee Dee Myers

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

Dean Stockwell

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Eleanor Roosevelt

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Eduardo Chillida

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

Edsger Dijkstra

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

Edward Abbey

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

I can't feel comfortable trying to (pitch) it in two months,

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