Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

William Cobbett

You never know what you can do till you try.

Wayne Dyer

Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

Tracee Ellis Ross

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,

Van Jones

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

Van Morrison

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

Van Morrison

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Ursula Andress

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

Rodney Crowell

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Roberto Unger

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

Robertson Davies

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Robert Stone

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Robert Palmer

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Robert Fisk

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Wes Anderson

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

Walt Mossberg

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

Vinod Khosla

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Walt Whitman

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

Sarah Dessen

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

Sarah Dessen

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

Sarah Dessen

Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?

Sarah Dessen

In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

Sarah Dessen

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

Sarah Dessen

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Sarah Dessen

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

Roseanne Barr

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Roger Waters

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

Rod Steiger

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand.

Rod Taylor

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Rod Serling

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

Robin Thicke

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

Robin McKinley

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.