Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Bean

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

Robert Jordan

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

Robert Jordan

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Robert Jordan

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Robert Jordan

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Rodney Crowell

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Roberto Unger

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Robertson Davies

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Robert Stone

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Robert Palmer

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

William Holden

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Howard Taft

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Will Shortz

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

Warren Buffett

Stop trying to predict...

Warren Buffett

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

Warren Buffett

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Warren Buffett

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Warren Buffett

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

Warren Buffett

I never try to predict the market.

Warren Buffett

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

Vladimir Guerrero

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

Vincent Van Gogh

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Vincent Van Gogh

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Will Packer

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

Werner Heisenberg

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

Werner Erhard

But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand.

Werner Herzog

I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

Wayne Thiebaud

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.