Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Klosterman

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

Chuck D.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

Chuck D.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Chuck D.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

Christopher Walken

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

Christopher Paolini

As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod

Christopher Moore

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

Annika Sorenstam

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

Ansel Elgort

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Anne Beatts

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

Angelina Jolie

Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are.

Amos Oz

I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.

Amy Adams

One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you.

Alyson Hannigan

You can have all this mismatched Tupperware and lids, but you can never get them sealed quite right. That one edge always keeps popping up. It's supposed to fit, but it rarely does. You've gotta try a few lids before you find the one that actually snaps.

Ally Condie

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

Anthony Doerr

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Amy Chua

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

Alma Gluck

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Anna Freud

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Anna Held

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

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.