Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emanuel Ax

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Elvis Presley

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Elliott Gould

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Elliot Perlman

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

Elisha Cuthbert

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

Elisha Cuthbert

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

John Constable

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Joel Parkinson

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

Joel Sternfeld

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Joel Osteen

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Joel Osteen

Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.

Joel Osteen

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

Joel Osteen

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Joel Osteen

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Joe Biden

The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

Jimmy Nail

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Jimmy Page

I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

Lloyd Alexander

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

LL Cool J

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

LL Cool J

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

Manu Ginobili

If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.

Manuel Puig

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Madeline Kahn

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeleine L'Engle

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Lytton Strachey

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Louisa May Alcott

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

Louisa May Alcott

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Lou Holtz

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

John Green

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.