Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Woodward

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Bob Newhart

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

Billy Joel

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

Bill Pullman

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

Bill Parcells

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

Bill Johnson

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

Eric Close

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

Jane Asher

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

Jane Austen

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

Jason Blum

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

Jared Diamond

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

Janet Malcolm

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

Janet Reno

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Janet Jackson

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

Janet Jackson

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.

C. S. Lewis

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Burton Cummings

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.

Busta Rhymes

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

Bryant H. McGill

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Bryant H. McGill

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

Celia Imrie

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Carter Burwell

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Carrot Top

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

Alan Garner

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Alan Dershowitz

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Al Yankovic

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Al Yankovic

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

Alain de Botton

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

Al Gore

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.