Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janeane Garofalo

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

Janeane Garofalo

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

Janet Evanovich

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Ethan Hawke

One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.

Ethan Hawke

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Ernest Shackleton

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Cassandra Clare

You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before.

Carly Simon

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Carly Simon

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Kyle Kinane

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.

Kevin McCarthy

Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.

Evan Sayet

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

Evan Rachel Wood

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

Christopher Hitchens

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

Jenny Mollen

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

Jenny Lawson

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

Grant Morrison

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

Glenn Beck

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Harry Vardon

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Hanley Ramirez

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

Hank Azaria

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Fred Rogers

There's always someone who is trying to help.

Fred Rogers

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

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.