Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Oswald Chambers

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Oswald Chambers

Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.

Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Mark Twain

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Marianne Williamson

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

Marianne Williamson

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Marianne Williamson

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Marianne Williamson

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

Marianne Williamson

If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

Mark Leyner

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Mario Andretti

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again

Marilyn Manson

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Mae Whitman

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Freddie Hubbard

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

Frank Oz

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Christopher Hitchens

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

Christine Vachon

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christina Baldwin

Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Christina Baker Kline

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Chris Pronger

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Chris O'Donnell

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris Matthews

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

Chris Matthews

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

Gilbert Gottfried

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

Gertrude Stein

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Gerard Way

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

Hayao Miyazaki

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

Forest Whitaker

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

Forest Whitaker

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

George Wald

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.