Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Benet

What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.

Eric Balfour

The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.

Enid Blyton

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Emo Philips

I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

James Comey

The lawyers doing the sorting for Hillary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton's personal system in 2014.

James Cook

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

James Baker

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president

James Altucher

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

Jake Epstein

I try to keep my private life private.

Jacque Fresco

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

Henry Rollins

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Henry Rollins

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

Henry Rollins

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

Henry Rollins

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Henry A. Kissinger

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

Helen Gurley Brown

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

Helen Gurley Brown

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Henry Cavill

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

Helmut Newton

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Heber J. Grant

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

Hedy Lamarr

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Heather Mills

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

Mary Engelbreit

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Patricia Cornwell

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Patricia Briggs

Trying is always enough.

Patricia Briggs

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

Pat Oliphant

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

Paddy Ashdown

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Plautus

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Philip Wylie

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

Martin Parr

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

Martin Parr

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.