Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Zinsser

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

William McDonough

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

William McDonough

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Virender Sehwag

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

Vincent Gallo

Ive never been a popular person, but it doesnt matter. I have everything in my life that I want. Im not a walking publicity stunt. Im not an anarchist, or bitter. Im not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

Woody Hayes

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

Woody Hayes

You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.

Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

Yanni

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Wladimir Klitschko

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Wiz Khalifa

Went from hated on to n-ggas trying to go down the same road I made it on.

Winston Churchill

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Wim Wenders

If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

Will Oldham

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

Will Self

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Will Rogers

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Will Rogers

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Will Rogers

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Wes Borland

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world

W. C. Fields

Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

W. C. Fields

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

W. C. Fields

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Zadie Smith

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

Zadie Smith

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Zoe Wanamaker

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zach Galifianakis

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

Zach Galifianakis

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Zachary Levi

I just try to remember my lines most of the time.

Yvon Chouinard

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Zac Efron

There's no point in being scared of just trying.

Zach Braff

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Yuri Kochiyama

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Milner

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.