Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We are not trying to republish their book.

Hannah Kent

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

Abbey Lincoln

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Abbas Kiarostami

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

A. A. Milne

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

A. A. Milne

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Adrien Brody

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

Adrian Peterson

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.

Adrian Peterson

I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.

Adriana Trigiani

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

Adrian Rogers

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

Adrian Beltre

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

Dan Fouts

I try to keep an even keel.

Cyril Cusack

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Columbus Short

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Dar Williams

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

Dan O'Brien

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

Dan Miller

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

Dan Millman

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Alexei Sayle

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Jane Goodall

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

Jamie Bell

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'