Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lauryn Hill

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

Lauryn Hill

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

Lauryn Hill

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

Lauryn Hill

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

Lauryn Hill

I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

Laura Linney

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Lana Wood

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

Lance Armstrong

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,

Lisa Loeb

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

Lisa Kleypas

Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare was innocently grazing when the ill-bred seducer had his way with her. Now it appears the mare has conceived, and a feud is raging between Caird, who demands financial compensation, and Mawdsley, who insists that had the pasture fencing been in better repair, the clandestine meeting would never have occurred. Worse still, it has been suggested that the mare is a shameless lightskirt and did not try nearly hard enough to preserve her virtue.

Lisa Kleypas

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

Johnny Depp

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

Johnny Depp

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

John Turturro

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

John Updike

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

James Lee Burke

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

James Fox

Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

Laurence J. Peter

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

Laura Chinchilla

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

Larry Flynt

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Kyle Maynard

Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.

Liam Payne

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Liev Schreiber

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

Libba Bray

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Libba Bray

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Libba Bray

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Lester Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.