Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christie Brinkley

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Christian Slater

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about

Christian Bale

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

Chris Ware

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Chris Ware

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Chris Patten

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Chris Paul

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

Chris Kyle

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

Faith Evans

I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

Faith Evans

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We all must try to be good.

George W. Bush

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

George W. Bush

I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

George W. Bush

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

George Thorogood

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

George Soros

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

George Orwell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

George R. R. Martin

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

Jean Cocteau

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

George Carlin

I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.

George Carlin

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

George Carlin

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

George Carlin

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

Gene Simmons

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

Garth Nix

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

Garth Nix

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

Garth Brooks

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Garth Brooks

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

Garry Winogrand

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

Garry Winogrand

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

Garry Winogrand

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

Garry Winogrand

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.