Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Padilha

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

Jose Mourinho

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jonny Lang

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Joni Mitchell

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

Joni Mitchell

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

Jonathan Stroud

Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.

Jonathan Tucker

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

Kevin Spacey

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

Kevin Brownlow

My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

Kenneth Clarke

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

Keith Waterhouse

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

Kelli O'Hara

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

Keke Palmer

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

Kelley Armstrong

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Joaquin Phoenix

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

John C. Reilly

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

John C. Reilly

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

John C. Reilly

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

John Cage

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

John Cage

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

John Cage

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Melody Beattie

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

James Taylor

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

James Surowiecki

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

James Patterson

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

James Patterson

I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.

Novak Djokovic

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

Novak Djokovic

I always try to adjust to the situation.

Novak Djokovic

I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

Norton Juster

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Norton Juster

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

Norton Juster

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance