Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kym Whitley

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

She's leery of trying new things, new people. That's something that has to be worked on.

Edward Norton

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Bruce Boxleitner

Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Brian McKnight

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Brian May

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Brian May

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Brett Ratner

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

Brett Ratner

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brandon Sanderson

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Boris Spassky

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Bow Wow

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

Ben Quayle

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Barbara Kruger

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition...

Barbara Kingsolver

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

Barbara Kingsolver

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

Barbara Mertz

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Augusten Burroughs

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

Augusten Burroughs

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

Sylvia Hatchell

She was tired. And we were trying to get some more rebounds.

She was always trying to make the world a better place even while she was sick.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Dee Dee Myers

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

Dean Stockwell

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them