Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Brian May

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Brian May

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Brett Ratner

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

Brett Ratner

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brandon Sanderson

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Boris Spassky

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Bow Wow

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

Ben Quayle

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Barbara Kruger

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition...

Barbara Kingsolver

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

Barbara Kingsolver

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

Barbara Mertz

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Augusten Burroughs

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

Augusten Burroughs

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

Aziz Ansari

No one's trying to get with jugglers.

We didn't think about any issues. We were just trying to find a way to make first downs.

Charles Bukowski

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

Charles Bukowski

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Charles Bukowski

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

Paul Draper

We used to play Summit. I went over there trying to get them going again.

Edward Abbey

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

Eddy Curry

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,

Eddy Arnold

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

Atom Egoyan

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

Atul Gawande

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Aristotle

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Ben Hogan

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

Ed McBain

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