Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fannie Flagg

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

Famke Janssen

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Famke Janssen

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Faith Hill

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

Eve Arnold

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

Euripides

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Francis Collins

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Crick

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

Francis Ford Coppola

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Francis Ford Coppola

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something...

Francis Chan

The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

Forest Whitaker

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

Forest Whitaker

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

George Wald

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

George W. Bush

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

George Orwell

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Christian Bale

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

Chris Ware

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Chris Ware

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Chris Patten

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Chris Paul

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

Chris Kyle

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

Faith Evans

I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

Faith Evans

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We all must try to be good.

George W. Bush

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

George W. Bush

I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

George W. Bush

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

George Thorogood

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

George Soros

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

George Orwell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.