Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Hans Zimmer

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.

Hans Zimmer

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler..

Graydon Carter

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,

Greg Behrendt

When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.

Gordon Moore

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Louis Sachar

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

John Clare

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

Lupe Fiasco

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

Luis Gonzalez

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

John Cena

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

John Boorman

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

John Boyne

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

John Boyne

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

Matthieu Ricard

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Meg Cabot

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

Maxwell Maltz

Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.

Maya Angelou

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Maya Angelou

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Max Cannon

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Max Beckmann

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Matthew Quick

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

Matthew Quick

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

Matthew Perry

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Matthew McConaughey

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

Marilyn vos Savant

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Marilyn vos Savant

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Marilynne Robinson

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

Edward Burns

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Edie Sedgwick

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

Eckhart Tolle

If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

Eckhart Tolle

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.