Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Steiger

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand.

Rod Taylor

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Rod Serling

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

Robin Thicke

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

Robin McKinley

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

Robert Zoellick

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Roberto Benigni

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Robert Smith

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

Robert Rauschenberg

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Robert Plant

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

Robert Plant

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

Robert Ludlum

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Robert M. Gates

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

Sargent Shriver

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

Sarah Vowell

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Sarah Kay

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

Sarah Kay

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

William Holden

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Howard Taft

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Will Shortz

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

Walter Lippmann

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

William Stafford

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

William Hurt

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard

Walter Gilbert

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. ... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Walter Dean Myers

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

Winslow Homer

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Winston Churchill

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

William Zinsser

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

William Zinsser

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

William Zinsser

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.