Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Peter Lynch

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

R. A. Salvatore

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

Quentin Tarantino

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

Prince

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Pierce Brosnan

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Philo

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

Mike Greenberg

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Figgis

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

Natsuki Takaya

Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.

Natsuki Takaya

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

Joanna Newsom

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

George Lucas

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

George Karl

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

George Jones

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

Emily Kinney

I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.

Emanuel Ax

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Elvis Presley

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Elliott Gould

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Elliot Perlman

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

Elisha Cuthbert

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

Elisha Cuthbert

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

John Constable

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Joel Parkinson

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

Joel Sternfeld

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Joel Osteen

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Joel Osteen

Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.

Joel Osteen

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.