Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

Craig Shirley

Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Corazon Aquino

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Claude Debussy

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Daniel Schorr

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Daniel Quinn

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Daniel Radcliffe

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

Daniel Boulud

I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

Daniel Berrigan

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them

Daniel Clowes

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

Daniel Clowes

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

Daniel Craig

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

Damian Marley

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

Cory Booker

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Courteney Cox

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Clive Bell

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Dylan Moran

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

e. e. cummings

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

E. B. White

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

Drew Goddard

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

Douglas Coupland

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

Douglas Coupland

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Donald Trump

I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

Adam LaRoche

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

Adam Rapp

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

Adam Lambert

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Adam Gopnik

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Abraham Lincoln

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.

Alec Guinness

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Albert Einstein

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Alfred Molina

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.