Famous Quotes & Sayings

The voters said they wanted this. We're just trying to find the right way to go about it and the right place.

Craig Thompson

They can get in at 9-2, 8-3, but we have to be 11-0. That's what we're trying to change.

They are trying to wrap up everything on the apron project.

They are trying to tell us they're not going to give us our pay.

Bill Callahan

They are trying to live up to tradition.

Brian Jones

They are trying to keep things very lean.

They were writing each other and he was trying to make preparations for her to be here.

It's like no one told him what we're trying to do.

It's going to take a combination of all of us. No one person can do everything, or one agency. We're trying to get everyone to work together.

Lloyd Alexander

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

LL Cool J

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

LL Cool J

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

Manu Ginobili

If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.

Manuel Puig

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Madeline Kahn

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeleine L'Engle

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Lytton Strachey

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Louisa May Alcott

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

Louisa May Alcott

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Lou Holtz

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

John Green

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

John Green

There is no try. There is only do.

John Gordon Sinclair

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

John Fowles

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

John Flanagan

In a month, the passes into Teutlandt and Skanida will be open and my companion and I will be on our way." He paused and Philemon frowned, trying to understand what he was being told. You want us to come with you?" he asked, at last. "You expect us to follow you?" Halt shook his head. "I have no wish to ever see any of you again," he said flatly.

Jonah Peretti

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Jonah Hill

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

Jonah Goldberg

Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

Jon Stewart

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

Kate Walsh

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

Kate Winslet

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

Kate Winslet

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.