Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Sally Kellerman

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Marya Hornbacher

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

Paul Gauguin

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Paul Hindemith

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Jason Fuchs

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Sri Chinmoy

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

John Rhys-Davies

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

Mark Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.