Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Jefferson

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Richard Holbrooke

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Robert Fisk

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Wes Anderson

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

Walt Mossberg

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

Vincent Cassel

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

Walter Lippmann

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

William Stafford

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

William Hurt

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard

Walter Gilbert

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. ... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Walter Dean Myers

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

Winslow Homer

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Winston Churchill

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

William Zinsser

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

William Zinsser

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

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.

Woody Allen

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

Woody Allen

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

Woody Allen

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.

William Shatner

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.

William Merritt Chase

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

William Moseley

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.'' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

William Moseley

For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.