Famous Quotes & Sayings

Federico Fellini

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Fareed Zakaria

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

Faith Ringgold

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Fannie Lou Hamer

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Fannie Flagg

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

Famke Janssen

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Famke Janssen

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Faith Hill

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

Eve Arnold

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

Euripides

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Francis Collins

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Crick

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

Francis Ford Coppola

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Francis Ford Coppola

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something...

Francis Chan

The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Erwin McManus

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Erykah Badu

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Ernest Mandel

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Eriq La Salle

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Florynce Kennedy

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

Florence Nightingale

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Fisher Stevens

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

Flora Lewis

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Flavor Flav

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Finn Wittrock

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

Fetty Wap

I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.

Fiona Apple

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.