Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold E. Varmus

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

J. M. Coetzee

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J. K. Rowling

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

J. K. Rowling

So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

J. K. Rowling

Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

J. K. Rowling

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.

Ivan Pavlov

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Greg Laswell

I try not to take myself too seriously.

J. William Fulbright

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.

Masanobu Fukuoka

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

Masanobu Fukuoka

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

Mary Harron

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

Martha Beck

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Martha Beck

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Paul Haggis

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

Paul Haggis

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

Paul Haggis

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Hawken

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Pau Gasol

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

Pat Benatar

Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

Judd Apatow

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's ever happened. It's a bizarre aspect of what's happened with all of these subscription services is everyone is trying to outdo each other by doing great things.

Judd Apatow

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

Judd Apatow

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Leonardo DiCaprio

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Naomi Campbell

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

Naguib Mahfouz

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Miuccia Prada

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.