Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Houston

There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

Jacques Prevert

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Rivette

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.

Jacqueline Novogratz

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce...

George Harrison

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

Gaspard Ulliel

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

Gary Zukav

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

Garrett Atkins

I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.

Fulton J. Sheen

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

Freddie Hubbard

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

Frank Oz

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Christopher Hitchens

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

Christine Vachon

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christina Baldwin

Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Christina Baker Kline

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Chris Pronger

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Chris O'Donnell

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris Matthews

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

Chris Matthews

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

Gilbert Gottfried

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

Forest Whitaker

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

Forest Whitaker

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

George Wald

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

George W. Bush

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

George Orwell

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Franz Grillparzer

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Jeff Koons

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

Jeff Koons

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Jim Carrey

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.

Jessica Walter

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Jennifer Westfeldt

The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Jennifer Weiner

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.