Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Robert Jordan

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Robert Jordan

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

William Hague

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

William H. Macy

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

Vladimir Nabokov

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

Vladimir Nabokov

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Yoko Ono

I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.

Yoko Ono

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

Yancy Butler

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Yancy Butler

I'll try anything once.

Yani Tseng

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

Wynton Marsalis

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Wolfman Jack

I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Willow Shields

I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

Willow Shields

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

Willie Nelson

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

William Orbit

I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".

William P. Leahy

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

William Osler

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

William Penn

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

William Penn

Let us try what love will do.

Yehuda Amichai

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Yelawolf

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Yasser Arafat

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking about the charters again, you have to remember that the Israelis should recognize first the resolutions of the United Nations, according to [one of] which they became a state. Israel is the only state which was created by one of the United Nations resolutions.

Zig Ziglar

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Zig Ziglar

When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook - it's always good!

Zedd

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Zendaya

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

Robbie Jones

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

Maxwell

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.