Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Faris

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

Anna Faris

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

Andrew Shue

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

Andy Murray

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

Andrew Forrest

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Andrew Flintoff

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

Ambrose Bierce

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

Ambrose Bierce

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Anthony Horowitz

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

Anthony Hopkins

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Anthony Hopkins

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Alison Bechdel

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alicia Keys

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Alice Walker

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Aga Khan IV

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Aesop

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Rafael Nadal

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

John Marshall

When it's real loud, you've got to be able to communicate. We're just trying to get used to it.

Chris Harrison

We are a young team, and we've been trying to work through everything.

We're all trying to do the same things here.

We're always hopeful, ... That's what we've been trying to do all along.