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.

George Carlin

I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.

George Carlin

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

George Carlin

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

George Carlin

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

Gene Simmons

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

Garth Nix

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

Garth Nix

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

Garth Brooks

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

Garth Brooks

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

Garry Winogrand

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

Garry Winogrand

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

Garry Winogrand

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

Garry Winogrand

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

Gail Porter

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Frank Thomas

As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

Frank Thomas

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

George Eads

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

Fergie

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

Felicity Kendal

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

Felicity Kendal

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

Finn Wittrock

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

Fetty Wap

I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.

Fiona Apple

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Henry Miller

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Helen Keller

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Helen Keller

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

Caterina Fake

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Cate Blanchett

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Cassandra Clare

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.