Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aasif Mandvi

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Tony Gwynn

What drives me is trying to be perfect.

Alexander Siddig

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

Adam Savage

I find it's too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we're being well-defended, of exactly what we're doing. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them.

Adam Savage

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

Adam Sandler

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

Adam Sandler

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Adam Brody

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

Adam Duritz

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Adam Duritz

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

Adam Carolla

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

Ani Difranco

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Andy Goldsworthy

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Amy Lowell

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Amy Poehler

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

Allen Iverson

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

Alistair Cooke

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Allan Bloom

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Alicia Sacramone

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

Ann Brashares

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

Johnny Bench

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Jenn Proske

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

Alan Cohen

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

Nikki Sixx

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

Christy Romano

I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.

Christy Romano

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

Calvin Klein

I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

Chad Hurley

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.