Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burt Lancaster

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Bubba Sparxxx

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

Bruno Mars

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

James Herbert

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Earl Jones

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

James Earl Jones

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

James E. Faust

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

Jaromir Jagr

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Jared Leto

Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

Janet Erskine Stuart

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

Janeane Garofalo

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

Janeane Garofalo

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

Janet Evanovich

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Ethan Hawke

One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.

Ethan Hawke

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Ernest Shackleton

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Cassandra Clare

You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.

Garrett Atkins

I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.

Fulton J. Sheen

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

Freddie Hubbard

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

Frank Oz

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Christopher Hitchens

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

Christine Vachon

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Christina Baldwin

Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Christina Baker Kline

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

Chris Pronger

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

Chris O'Donnell

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris Matthews

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

Chris Matthews

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

Gilbert Gottfried

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

Gertrude Stein

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Gerard Way

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

Hayao Miyazaki

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.