Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Prefontaine

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

Steve Lacy

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Steve Forbert

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

Steve Guttenberg

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

Stephen Dunn

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

Stephanie Klein

I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.

Vaclav Havel

When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.

V. S. Naipaul

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

V. S. Naipaul

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Usain Bolt

One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

Usain Bolt

I try not to eat too much fast food but still go for hot wings occasionally. As I get older, I have to pay more attention to my diet. My favorite food is jerk pork.

Usain Bolt

There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.

Usain Bolt

I try to lead by example.

Susie Orbach

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Susie Orbach

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Susan Stewart

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

Suzanne Collins

They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

Suzanne Collins

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

Suzanne Collins

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

Suzanne Collins

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

Suzanne Collins

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Steve Squyres

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steve Spurrier

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

Stephen Lang

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

Stephen King

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Stephen King

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Stephanie Szostak

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

Stephanie Mills

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Star Jones

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I try my hardest not to read reviews.

Taylor Momsen

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

Taylor Swift

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.