Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Brashares

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Aga Khan IV

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Aesop

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Rafael Nadal

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

A. J. Jacobs

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

A. J. Jacobs

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

A. J. McLean

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

A. S. Byatt

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Abbey Lincoln

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Abbas Kiarostami

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

A. A. Milne

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

A. A. Milne

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Adrien Brody

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

Adrian Peterson

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.

Adrian Peterson

I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.

Adriana Trigiani

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

Adrian Rogers

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

Adrian Beltre

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

Adam LaRoche

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

Adam Rapp

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

Adam Lambert

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Adam Gopnik

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Abraham Lincoln

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Johnny Bench

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Jenn Proske

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

Alan Cohen

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

You know what? It's about winning in this league. It's not about trying - that should be a given.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

I think they're trying to make things the way it used to be, ... But it's not going to be.

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.