Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avril Lavigne

If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that

Arthur C. Clarke

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Anton Chekhov

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Bella Heathcote

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

Baltasar Gracian

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

Diane Cilento

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Diane Arbus

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

Diana Wynne Jones

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Diana Wynne Jones

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Diane Ackerman

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

Demian Bichir

I try to be as clear as I can be.

Demi Lovato

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

Demetri Martin

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

Demetri Martin

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

Demetri Martin

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

Demetri Martin

If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

Demetri Martin

To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.

Dean Koontz

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Dean Koontz

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Dean Koontz

Never, never try to scope the market.

Daniel Ellsberg

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

Daniel Handler

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Daniel Handler

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Bob Dylan

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

Billy Connolly

Try to live in a place you like.

Billy Connolly

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Billy Corgan

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

Bobby Fischer

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Bruce Greenwood

We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads.

Brian Regan

I'm trying to do things I have never done. Like I recently went to 3 different ballets. And I loved trying to learn how to like those a little bit.

Brendan Gleeson

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.