Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theo Rossi

I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.

The Weeknd

I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself

Terry McMillan

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

Terry Pratchett

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

Terry Pratchett

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Margaret Mitchell

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Margaret Drabble

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

Margaret Haddix

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

Margaret Haddix

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Marcus Buckingham

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Kimbra

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

Michael Flatley

I'll try anything once, most things twice.

Michael Fassbender

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

Michael Faraday

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

Michael Birch

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Melissa Marr

What are you going to do? What do you want to do?” she prompted. “I’m going to go try to help Niall. He’s not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what’s wrong,” he told her. “Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.

Michael Patrick Jann

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Michael Palin

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

Michael Ian Black

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.

The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any more debt, so there's no way the banks can continue their current business plan.

Michael Douglas

Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you're trying to make the best movie possible.

Michael Emerson

So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways.

Michael B. Jordan

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Ravi Zacharias

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

Ray Bradbury

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ray Bradbury

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice,...

Ray Bradbury

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Randy Jackson

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

Randy Moss

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.

Randy Pausch

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Eric Hoffer

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.