Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Faust

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

James Brown

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

James Boswell

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Jakob Nielsen

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

Jacqueline Woodson

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Jacques Derrida

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

Jackie Evancho

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

Jackie Collins

I try not to bore my readers.

Jackie Chan

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

Jackie Chan

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

Jackie Chan

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Jack White

I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

Jack White

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

Jack White

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

Iyanla Vanzant

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

Isaac Marion

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

Isaac Marion

What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

Isaac Asimov

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Irene Cara

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

Ellen Forney

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

He's trying to play all sides, but it doesn't look like it's working.

Frank Robinson

He's trying to do a little too much right now.

Neal Shusterman

We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

Neale Donald Walsch

True abundance has nothing to do with anything that I am having, and everything to do with what I am being. And that when I share my abundance of beingness abundantly with all those whose lives I touch, everything I sought to have came to me automatically, without my even trying to have them.

Neale Donald Walsch

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

Nate Parker

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

Morrie Schwartz

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Morgan Freeman

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

Moon Bloodgood

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

Miles Davis

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Mike Lowry

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

Mickey Spillane

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

Joseph Addison

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.