Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philippe Halsman

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

Quvenzhane Wallis

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

Prince

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Peter Tosh

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

Terry Crews

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

Terry Gilliam

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Terence McKenna

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Teju Cole

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.

Scarlett Johansson

When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .

Larry David

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

Marco Arment

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Marc Cherry

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Marc Forster

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Thomas A. Edison

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

Thomas A. Edison

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

Thomas A. Edison

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

Silvio Scaglia

E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.

Simon Callow

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

Sidney Crosby

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

Shia LaBeouf

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Sheryl Sandberg

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

Shel Silverstein

This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot

Sharon Jones

There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.

Neil Peart

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

Leighton Meester

Don’t try to be anything but yourself, and find success as yourself. Otherwise, you won’t be happy.

Lars Ulrich

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

John Kasich

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

Lester B. Pearson

The only failures are those who fail to try.

Pema Chodron

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

Pierre Trudeau

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.