Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

David Chipperfield

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

David Arquette

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

David Ayer

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

Donella Meadows

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Dylan O'Brien

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Doug Ose

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

Douglas Booth

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Doug Stanhope

If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

Doug Stanhope

Your sins are what make you fantastic. It's what makes you alive. You should wear your sins on your sleeve. You should be trying to top your sins on a daily basis.

Douglas Adams

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

Douglas Adams

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

Douglas Adams

He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Douglas Adams

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Douglas Adams

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Dorothea Lange

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

Dorothy Allison

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Donna Tartt

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

Donald Glover

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

Donald Glover

I try and go to as many places as possible. It's really cool that I even get to see different places.

Donald Glover

I try to be me to the utmost.

Don Watson

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

Don Rickles

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Dale Jarrett

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

Dale Murphy

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

Dale Carnegie

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Dale Carnegie

When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

Dale Carnegie

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

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.