Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bakker

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jennifer Lee

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of NOs to any YES. And that's OK.

Jennifer O'Neill

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Jennifer Lynch

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm trying not to change.

Jeff Francoeur

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.

Jean Houston

There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

Jacques Prevert

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Rivette

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.

Jacqueline Novogratz

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce...

George Harrison

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

Gaspard Ulliel

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

Gary Zukav

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

Garrett Atkins

I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.

Fulton J. Sheen

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

Franz Grillparzer

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Jeff Koons

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

Jeff Koons

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Jim Carrey

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.

Jessica Walter

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Jennifer Westfeldt

The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Jennifer Weiner

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

Jeff Beck

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

Jeaniene Frost

How unconvincing. Try again.

Jeaniene Frost

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

Jeaniene Frost

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

Jeaniene Frost

So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.

Jeaniene Frost

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

Jeaniene Frost

Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Jones

The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's when we try to get the most decision-makers in front of the television, in the fourth quarter.