Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amelia Earhart

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

Amanda Hocking

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Amanda Hocking

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Amanda Palmer

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Amanda Palmer

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

Annie Dillard

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Clemence Poesy

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.

Clay Shirky

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Daniel Johns

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Daniel Kahneman

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

D. J. Cotrona

I try to stay in decent shape.

D. A. Carson

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

D. A. Carson

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

D. H. Lawrence

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Crystal Gayle

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Conor Oberst

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

Clint Howard

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

What I think they are trying to do is take ground.

Malorie Blackman

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

What we're trying to do is weather the storm.

Alexander MacLaren

Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.

Alexa Von Tobel

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Alex Winter

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Alexa Vega

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!

Alex Karpovsky

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software glitch occurred that there had been a breach by the Sanders campaign staff, which I was glad to see senator [Bernie] Sanders acknowledge that was wrong and apologize for.

E. M. Forster

All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

Drew Barrymore

My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.

Douglas Rushkoff

'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

Don DeLillo

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Don DeLillo

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing...

Donella Meadows

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Dylan O'Brien

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.