Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Clare

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

Lupe Fiasco

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

Luis Gonzalez

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

John Cena

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

John Boorman

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

John Boyne

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

John Boyne

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

These are important precedents here that we're trying to get at, ... And I think there's just confusion.

Victoria Jackson

And so this year we've made a little experiment, we're trying to live bi-coastally.

This has nothing to do with our use of confidential information. It's all about trying to get us from competing.

Juliana Hatfield

All I'm trying to do is to keep going and keep evolving.

Eric Idle

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

Eric Idle

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

Eric Idle

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Eric Hoffer

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

Eric Benet

What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.

Eric Balfour

The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.

Enid Blyton

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Emo Philips

I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

James Comey

The lawyers doing the sorting for Hillary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton's personal system in 2014.

James Cook

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

James Baker

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president

James Altucher

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

Og Mandino

If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!

Norman Reedus

I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.

Norman Lear

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

Orson Welles

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Ornette Coleman

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.

Orlando Bloom

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

Omar Khayyam

I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.

Oliver Stone

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Oliver Stone

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

Oliver Stone

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.