Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Bamford

I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and I just love that part.

Mari Evans

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Margot Fonteyn

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Frank Herbert

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

Frank Herbert

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

George H. W. Bush

I try to hold my charisma in check.

George H. W. Bush

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.

Hailee Steinfeld

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

Gus Van Sant

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Gus Van Sant

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Gus Van Sant

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Greg Maddux

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

Graham Nelson

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Jim Broadbent

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

Jim Butcher

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Jim Butcher

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Jesse Ventura

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

Jay-Z

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

Candice Swanepoel

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

Burt Lancaster

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Bubba Sparxxx

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

Bruno Mars

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

James Herbert

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Earl Jones

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

James Earl Jones

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

James E. Faust

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

Jaromir Jagr

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Jared Leto

Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

Janet Erskine Stuart

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

Kool Keith

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

Kiran Bedi

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Kiri Te Kanawa

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.