Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Cade Bambara

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Toni Braxton

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Tony La Russa

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

Tommy Lee Jones

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Tommy Hilfiger

Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

Tom Welling

Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.

Tom Welling

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Tom Waits

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

Tom Shippey

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Tom Skerritt

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

Steven Spielberg

When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Steven Gerrard

Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

Steve McConnell

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

Steve Miller

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

Steve Martin

Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

Steve Martin

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

Steve Carell

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

Spencer Smith

We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

Spike Lee

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

Spike Lee

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Shirley Temple

If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Shirley Manson

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

Shirley Manson

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

Shawn Johnson

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

Shailene Woodley

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

Shahrukh Khan

I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual.

Shahrukh Khan

I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else