Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kaya Scodelario

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

Keanu Reeves

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

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.

Ralph Bakshi

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

Rafael Correa

Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.

Sheena Iyengar

The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere.

Sharon Stone

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Van Etten

Im trying to learn how to cook.

Shane Carruth

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

Serena Williams

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

Sean Durkin

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

Scott Anderson

What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Scott Bakula

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Michael Urie

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

Michael Porter

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Michael Pitt

I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

Michael Pollan

I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.

Sidney Sheldon

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.