Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

Edward Norton

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Conan O'Brien

Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

E. W. Howe

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Dwight Howard

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

Colin Hay

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

Colin Mochrie

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out

Boomer Esiason

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

Gwendoline Christie

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Ben Mendelsohn

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Eve

Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

Andy Roddick

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

Alastair Campbell

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair]-Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Albert Finney

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

Albert Brooks

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

Albert Camus

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Amelia Earhart

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

Amanda Hocking

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Amanda Hocking

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Amanda Palmer

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Amanda Palmer

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

Annie Dillard

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Clemence Poesy

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.

Clay Shirky

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Daniel Johns

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Daniel Kahneman

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

D. J. Cotrona

I try to stay in decent shape.

D. A. Carson

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

D. A. Carson

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

D. H. Lawrence

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Crystal Gayle

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Conor Oberst

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

Clint Howard

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.