Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

He's trying to play all sides, but it doesn't look like it's working.

Frank Robinson

He's trying to do a little too much right now.

Paul Ryan

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

Paul Haggis

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

Paul Haggis

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

Paul Haggis

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Hawken

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Pau Gasol

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

Pat Benatar

Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Julia Quinn

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Judd Apatow

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

Judd Apatow

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Judd Apatow

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Leonardo DiCaprio

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.