Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Weeks

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Boozoo Chavis

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Bootsy Collins

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Boris Johnson

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

Bobby Rahal

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say

Bob Corker

In business, you try to solve problems.

Bob Dole

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dylan

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

Billy Connolly

Try to live in a place you like.

Billy Connolly

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Billy Corgan

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

Bobby Fischer

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Bruce Greenwood

We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads.

Bruce Boxleitner

Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Brian McKnight

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

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.