Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

Jean Cocteau

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

Garth Brooks

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Frank Thomas

I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jeff Beck

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

Jennifer Hudson

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

Emily Saliers

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

Jason Varitek

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

Greg Evigan

You can't know about marriage until you try it.

Glenn Ford

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Big Sean

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

C. S. Lewis

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

C. S. Lewis

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Carl Safina

It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

Bill Bryson

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

Ashley Tisdale

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

Ashton Kutcher

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

Arsene Wenger

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.

Bill Burr

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

Jimmy Walker

That was big. I'm just trying not to give anything away.

That's unacceptable. We're still negotiating, trying to get that changed.

I wasn't trying to be disrespectful or anything.

Ramon Hernandez

I was trying to look for a fastball,

I was trying to get something going, but you couldn't get a break. (Richards' bunt) wound up working, but we couldn't put another one together.

I was trying to find myself on the mound.

Ben Wallace

I was having one of those out-of-body experiences. Just trying to be active, just trying to get to the boards, just trying to make things happen.

I think if you win 20 in a row, that's hot. We're just trying to go game-to-game.

We are trying to freshen up what is only a five-year-old ballpark.

We are trying to find out which ones and why. We're trying to find (Mayer) and we can't.