Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gillian Flynn

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

Gillian Jacobs

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

Harvey Pekar

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

Harold Ramis

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

Harold Ramis

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

James E. Faust

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

James Brown

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

James Boswell

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Jakob Nielsen

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

Jacqueline Woodson

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Jacques Derrida

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

Jackie Evancho

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

Jackie Collins

I try not to bore my readers.

Jackie Chan

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

Jackie Chan

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

Jackie Chan

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Jack White

I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

Jack White

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

Jack White

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

Iyanla Vanzant

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

Isaac Marion

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

Isaac Marion

What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

Isaac Asimov

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Irene Cara

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

Ellen Forney

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Jeaniene Frost

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

Jeaniene Frost

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

Jeaniene Frost

So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.

Jeaniene Frost

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

Jeaniene Frost

Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Jones

The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's when we try to get the most decision-makers in front of the television, in the fourth quarter.