Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

Katy Perry

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

Ramana Maharshi

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

Ralph Ellison

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Ralph Ellison

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Ralph Fiennes

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Rachelle Lefevre

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

Rachel Zoe

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

Rain

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

Rafe Spall

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

Rahul Dravid

I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.

Radhanath Swami

To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

Radhanath Swami

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Sean William Scott

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

Sean Penn

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

Lily Tomlin

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

Liam McIntyre

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

Liam Hemsworth

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

Les Brown

No one knows what they can do until they try.

Leo Baekeland

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Steven Spielberg

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Ben Johnson

At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Bela Karolyi

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

Avery Johnson

We are trying to win a championship. But we're in the first year of implementing a program.

We are trying to get to that area.

We are trying to get them to really understand how to play.

We're trying to get out of a rut.

We're trying to get her in the mid-90's. If she can get up there, I think that can get her to state.

Orson Scott Card

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.