Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emanuel Ax

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Elvis Presley

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Elliott Gould

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Elliot Perlman

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

Josh Holloway

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Josh Holloway

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

Joseph Hall

Try to be of some use to others.

Katherine Anne Porter

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Joyce Meyer

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Joyce Meyer

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Joyce Meyer

God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

Katharine Hepburn

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Judith Viorst

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

Judy Blume

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Judy Blume

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

Joseph Conrad

I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.

Josh Young

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

Joshua Bell

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

Joshua Bell

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

Joshua Homme

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Joseph Fiennes

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Kate Moss

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

Kate Moss

You try and remember, but it never works.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Leona Lewis

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

Leonard Cohen

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Leighton Meester

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

Leighton Meester

Don’t try to be anything but yourself, and find success as yourself. Otherwise, you won’t be happy.

Leighton Meester

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.

Lawrence Taylor

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.