Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Chetan Bhagat

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

Chester Bennington

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

Cher Lloyd

I like to YouTube a lot, and try and find unknown singers.

Charlotte Church

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.

Charlize Theron

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Charlize Theron

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

Charles Lamb

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Chanakya

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Charlaine Harris

Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?

Chaka Khan

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Champ Bailey

If something's wrong with my body, I make sure to address it right away and not try to let it linger because it creates a bigger problem. You just have to understand your body, and when your body tells you something you just have to react.

Chance The Rapper

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Charlie Kaufman

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

Charlie Kaufman

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

Charlie Munger

Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well.

Charlie Munger

Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.

Charlie Munger

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

Charlie Munger

Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you.

Charlie Munger

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Charlie Munger

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

Charles M. Blow

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

Bill Johnson

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Bill Johnson

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Beverly Sills

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

Betty White

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Betty White

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

Bernardo Bertolucci

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.