Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

William Cobbett

You never know what you can do till you try.

Wayne Dyer

Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

Tracee Ellis Ross

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,

Van Jones

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

Van Morrison

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

Van Morrison

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Ursula Andress

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

Tyra Banks

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

Ty Segall

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Ty Olsson

I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.

Twiggy

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

Vladimir Putin

Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].

Vladimir Putin

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.

Vladimir Putin

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.

William Golding

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

William Goldman

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Waylon Jennings

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

Vladimir Nabokov

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

Vladimir Nabokov

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Yoko Ono

I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.

Yoko Ono

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

Yancy Butler

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Yancy Butler

I'll try anything once.

Yani Tseng

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Wynton Marsalis

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Wolfman Jack

I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Willow Shields

I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

Willow Shields

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

Willie Nelson

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

William Orbit

I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".