Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mayer Hawthorne

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

Mayer Hawthorne

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Maya Angelou

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Matthieu Ricard

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Meg Cabot

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

Maxwell Maltz

Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.

Maya Angelou

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Maya Angelou

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Max Cannon

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Max Beckmann

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Matthew Quick

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

Matthew Quick

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

Matthew Perry

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Matthew McConaughey

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

Marilyn vos Savant

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Marilyn vos Savant

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Marilynne Robinson

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

Mary Engelbreit

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Patricia Cornwell

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Patricia Briggs

Trying is always enough.

Patricia Briggs

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

Pat Oliphant

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

Paddy Ashdown

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Plautus

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Philip Wylie

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

Martin Parr

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

Martin Parr

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Martin Scorsese

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

Lauryn Hill

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

Lauryn Hill

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

Lauryn Hill

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

Lauryn Hill

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.