Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Julia Quinn

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Judd Apatow

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

Judd Apatow

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Judd Apatow

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Leonardo DiCaprio

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Patrick Ness

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

Patrick Rothfuss

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Patrice O'Neal

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Patrice Leconte

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

Parker Posey

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Paloma Faith

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

Paloma Faith

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

Leon Trotsky

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

Leah Remini

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Leah Chase

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

Nicholas Sparks

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

Navid Negahban

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

Muhammad Ali

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Mikey Way

Don't do anything to try to fit in.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Why try to pursue what is completed?

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Marian Wright Edelman

I try to be a person of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

Maria Bamford

I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and I just love that part.

Mari Evans

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Margot Fonteyn

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Marianne Faithfull

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.