Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Ness

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

Patrick Rothfuss

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Patrice O'Neal

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Patrice Leconte

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

Parker Posey

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Paloma Faith

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

Paloma Faith

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

Leon Trotsky

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

Leah Remini

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Leah Chase

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

Nicholas Sparks

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

Navid Negahban

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

Muhammad Ali

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Mikey Way

Don't do anything to try to fit in.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Why try to pursue what is completed?

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Marian Wright Edelman

I try to be a person of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

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?

Marianne Faithfull

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

Mike Colter

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

Nicholas D. Kristof

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Ned Vizzini

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

Nathan Wolfe

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

Naomi Campbell

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

Nadia Giosia

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Naguib Mahfouz

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Miuccia Prada

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.