Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Morgan

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

Peter Ackroyd

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

Pete Dye

I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,

Paulo Coelho

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Paulo Coelho

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Paulo Coelho

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

Paulo Coelho

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

Paulo Coelho

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Peter Lynch

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Quvenzhane Wallis

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

R. A. Salvatore

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

Quentin Tarantino

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

Prince

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Pierce Brosnan

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

Philo

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

Mike Greenberg

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Figgis

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

Natsuki Takaya

Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.

Natsuki Takaya

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

Mother Teresa

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Molly Shannon

I try to put my own history in my work.

Molly Shannon

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

Monica Ali

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Minoru Yamasaki

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Mira Nair

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Mike Jackson

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Try to be surprised by something every day.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.