Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hal David

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Geri Halliwell

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Herbie Hancock

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

Herbie Hancock

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Herman Melville

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Jill Scott

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

Jessica Lange

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

Jerry Harrison

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

Jerry Della Femina

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

Jeremy Bonderman

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

Jeremy Bonderman

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Jeremy Clarkson

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.

Jennifer Connelly

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing

Jennifer Connelly

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Jeff Vandermeer

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Jeff Greenwald

We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Jean Rhys

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

Jez Butterworth

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Jez Butterworth

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

Jhumpa Lahiri

They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

Godfrey Reggio

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Goldie Hawn

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Harriet Lerner

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Haley Joel Osment

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

Greil Marcus

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

Homer

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Hope Solo

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

Ian Bogost

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Ian Bogost

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

Hugh Prather

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.